tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23721224944042410742014-10-03T00:49:15.093-07:00Gabe The Wandering JewGabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06952019992793874926noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372122494404241074.post-91995259134958517262014-04-15T07:23:00.001-07:002014-04-15T07:23:16.672-07:00What path will you follow<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-n3vsNtcthec/U00re63SouI/AAAAAAAAApk/R8tT1zXXZwQ/s1600/sam_and_john_adams.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-n3vsNtcthec/U00re63SouI/AAAAAAAAApk/R8tT1zXXZwQ/s1600/sam_and_john_adams.jpg" height="207" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><br />Samuel and John Adams.<br />Cousins, both seeking a new form of government away from what they saw as the tyranny of Great Britain. Both active in the politics of Massachusetts. Both active in the Declaration of Independence. Both considered "Founding Fathers". However, they had different approaches to achieving their 'goals'.<br />Let's put aside that John was a bit of a big central government person. While relevant to him overall, it's not pertinent to this post.<br />John was a lawyer by trade and spent most of his effort in the fight for independence arguing. It's what lawyers do. All of his efforts were for a 'peaceful' separation from Great Britain. He believed that independence could be achieved through petition.<br />Sam, if you will, was a politician, but also an activist. Not content with simple petitions and procedure, he argued, publicly and privately for a resistance to the tyranny. While it's unclear how much of a role he had inside the Sons of Liberty, he certainly advocated for their actions and was a leader in the infamous "Tea Party".<br /><br />Today, there are similar voices, taking similar tracks.<br /><br />People like Kerodin, of the <a href="http://iiipercent.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">III Percent Patriots</a>, are calling for action, of sorts. Active resistance is probably the best term for it. While not calling for people to attack government, the call is to resist with whatever force is necessary, whichever form that takes.<br />We then have <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/04/14/glenn-beck-warns-americans-against-falling-in-with-the-rights-version-of-occupy-wall-street/" target="_blank">Glenn Beck</a>, who is calling for resistance through the ballot box. Believing that resorting to violence is not the way, he calls for calm and to fight through the redress of grievance; voting, marching, etc...<br />Like Sam and John, two approaches towards a similar goal of freedom and liberty.<br /><br />However, also like Sam and John, I fear both will be needed in order to change the course of things.<br /><br />Yes, to use the age old phrase, violence begets violence. The question you have to ask is, "Who threw the first punch?"<br />The State has become more and more oppressive. While I'm sure the increase in the availability of news from around the US has contributed to it, there's not a day that goes by without hearing of another LEO who has arrested/beaten/tased/maced/shot/killed someone who did nothing wrong other than not submit to the will of The State. The phrases "Stop resisting!" and "I felt my life was threatened" have become so common place that to <i>not</i> see them in a story of LEO abuse is surprising. And yet people react with almost glee when put into a state of near <a href="http://gabewanderingjew.blogspot.com/2013/04/were-here-to-help.html" target="_blank">martial law </a>saying "Whatever it takes to protect us." "Police work is a dangerous job and they worry about going home at night". <br />The State has actively targeted people who disagree with it. It's not a matter of political party, but a matter of liberty or statism. If you oppose statism, you are thus deemed an Enemy Of The State and your life will become hell. How many individuals have suddenly been up for an IRS audit because they spoke out against government? How many whistleblowers have had their lives ruined with false charges because they spoke out about injustice? And the sheep call for more government to protect them.<br />Every attempt is being made to restrict the access to arms and armament. The natural right protected (<b>not granted</b>) by the Second Amendment of the Constitution was to allow a citizenry to resist the advancement of tyranny; whether personal or governmental. Like all tyranny that's effective, it starts slowly and 'legally'. Remember, the Nazi's rose to power through voting and they justified all actions taken against their state enemies through the law. But remember, "nobody needs an assault weapon". "It's for the children."<br /><br />I abhor violence. Sometimes it's the only action that can be taken, but if it can be avoided, all the better. But like The Revolution, there comes a time to determine which path you will take.<br />In the struggle for independence, it's said that 1/3 were for independence, 1/3 were loyal to The Crown, and 1/3 didn't care. In total, 3% of the citizenry of the colonies actually fought for independence. So using rough numbers, 30% of the people of the American Colonies wanted independence, but didn't believe in violent action.<br /><br />So, are you part of the 3%, part of the 30%, or part of the 66%? Simple question to ask yourself. Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06952019992793874926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372122494404241074.post-36887142276551232282014-04-06T21:10:00.001-07:002014-04-06T21:10:24.970-07:00Yeah... it's gonna be like that<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HvTyQ5M2UkA/UbnU2gcIPdI/AAAAAAAAAnY/LOg5c2gEwAw/s1600/collapse.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HvTyQ5M2UkA/UbnU2gcIPdI/AAAAAAAAAnY/LOg5c2gEwAw/s320/collapse.jpg" height="320" width="287" /></a></div>LONG TIME since I posted last.<br />Funny what happens when life gets in the way. But recently, had a few family things happened that have given me insomnia, so wonderfully I'm typing in the wee-hours of the night.<br /><br />Nice looking collapse, huh? Coming soon to a country near you.<br />You shouldn't be surprised by it. It's been in the mail for a while. The problem is, you didn't want to admit it. You wanted to believe it would all work out. Some politician (or group there of) would remove their cranium from their rectum and fix things. In early 2010, I was out grabbing a bite to eat in my Gadsden sweatshirt. A nice older couple came up to me and said, "Thank for keeping up the fight." Nice of them to say.<br />We chatted a bit and the elections that year came up. I said plainly, "This is the last year we have a chance to turn it around." They were more optimistic and thought 2012 would be critical. But I disagreed, we said out goodbye's and that was that. But I knew I was right. Not because I'm some smug prick who walks around believing their shit doesn't stink, but I knew 2012 would be worthless.<br />The Republican party <i><u><b>HAD</b></u></i> to run the next guy in line. In 2008 it was McCain's turn. No one else stood a chance. Right after the election, I knew in my hear Romney would be the next one. Knew it. And in the years heading up to it, before any announcement, you could see it. The business background, his speaking style, "He's going to mop the floor with King Barry I". Yeah, right... I don't need to rehash that business, do I?<br />2010 was the last year to make a change. And what happened? A couple decent candidates made it through, but in general, more party establishment types got in, along with a few snakes (Renee Elmers, anyone?) who pulled the typical political move of lying through her meat curtains and then buddying up to the establishment. And why did this happen? Because you believed the hype. These people were going to be serious now! Yeah! They had the House! They controlled the purse strings! King Barry I wasn't going to push them around!<br />Pussies.<br />They "caved". Where are the spending cuts? Where's the return to fiscal responsibility? Where's the resistance to King Barry I? Oh yeah, this is politics, not some novel. The bad guys wear white AND black.<br /><br />Government is about control. How much control they have is up to the will of the people who elect those into positions of government. Once people stop exercising that will, the path to totalitarianism has been started.<br />It usually starts with a problem of some sort. Some reason to let government take power it doesn't have. And it was in the midst of the founders that it started. In <i>Marbury v. Madison</i>, the Supreme Court bestowed upon itself the right to review the Constitution and any laws passed by Congress and the President. Define for me in Article III where they have this right? I'll cut to the chase, they don't. But they took this "right" and instead of impeaching the court, which because the justices serve only"...in good standing..." was the right power for the Congress and President, they let it slide. Now 9 men and women in black robes determine what is and is not law. Not the 536 people duly elected. 9 people, hand picked by those in seats of power. If that's not the basis for an authoritarian government, I don't know what is.<br />Since then, Presidents and Congresses have bestowed upon themselves powers which were either rightfully those of the other branch or the states<b> OR</b> the people of the states.<br /><br />Because of this collection of power into the hands of 545 people and their hand-picked subordinates, this country is now destined to collapse in on itself.<br />The debt is no longer worth mentioning. We talk only of deficits now. "Hey, it's less than a $1trillion, so that's a good thing!"<br />Spying is fine as long as its done on <i>the people</i>, not <i>The Elites</i>. But each group of <i>Elites</i> can spy on each other, as long as us mere citizens don't get involved.<br />Police enforce the law, not keep the peace. And that enforcement could mean being beaten (to death if they choose), tased (also to death if they choose), chemical sprayed (once again to death if they feel up to it) or shot. They will not be held accountable for their actions. Qualified Immunity is a term you better get used to. Sounds good until you realize you are powerless to stop them because you've already given them the power to override your choices.<br />We involve our military in engagements around the globe that we have no businesses going near. But it's alright because "We're a global force for good." Say it enough times and maybe you'll believe it. 2+2=5, right?<br /><br />I don't know what comes next. Or when it'll all finally self-destruct. It can't be turned back at this point, I'm fairly confident of that. No one has the guts to do it. Everyone wants what others have and doesn't want to work for it. "I'm owed..." "I should have..." "It should be free..." "You're just trying to deny me..." "Racist!" "Greedy!" "Fair share!" and the slogans go on and on. <br />The problem isn't government. It's society. The "American Spirit" has truly become a spirit and it passed without so much as Taps being blown.<br /><br />Sad when you think about it.<br /><br />Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06952019992793874926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372122494404241074.post-83406387360006552662013-05-19T10:29:00.001-07:002013-05-19T10:29:52.007-07:00Parts is partsSorry for&nbsp; the delay for those who stroll by regularly. Between work and personal life, I've been pretty tied up and haven't shown this blog attention in a few weeks.<br /><br />Something different - A critique of the shooters out there. Well, some of you anyways<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lRQvaNqUSpU/UZkCo74OUDI/AAAAAAAAAmc/GlwryZARmyk/s1600/ARexploded.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="256" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lRQvaNqUSpU/UZkCo74OUDI/AAAAAAAAAmc/GlwryZARmyk/s320/ARexploded.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>This is an exploded AR, in case you're not a shooter. Standard platform broken down into it's individual components.<br /><br />Side note - You can tell the AK was designed by a soldier and the AR by an engineer. Having put together a few AR lowers, the amount of tiny pieces, little holes, and springs on the thing, you can see why it doesn't really like mud, sand, and just overall grit. Those little detents and springs suck ass. Back to my commentary...<br /><br />It's common for people, once they have an AR or two, or twelve, to begin customizing them to make them 'their own'. Stocks, foregrips, grips, end-plates and so on. You can really go overboard sometimes and make it look like a bit of a franken-gun<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PjezFfysKzM/UZkEkLMogxI/AAAAAAAAAms/wS08rd2SfkE/s1600/tacticool-ar-15-1024x485.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="151" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PjezFfysKzM/UZkEkLMogxI/AAAAAAAAAms/wS08rd2SfkE/s320/tacticool-ar-15-1024x485.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>But guess what? It's your gun so unless you're making it unsafe for those around you, you're the one who has to deal with it.<br /><br />Why my gripe?<br />While looking for a new stock for a recent AR build, I came across this little thing from Magpul called a B.A.D. (Battery Assist Device) lever.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eZO4_Uw92rU/UZkFAao_q-I/AAAAAAAAAm0/2FfLDCtAcrU/s1600/BAD+lever.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eZO4_Uw92rU/UZkFAao_q-I/AAAAAAAAAm0/2FfLDCtAcrU/s200/BAD+lever.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>The idea behind this little thing is it helps you engage and disengage the bolt catch using just your trigger finger. It requires no modification, as it just clamps on with an allen head screw around the standard catch paddle. I thought it was pretty nifty and when reading some of the reviews from people, they said they really liked how it allowed them to change magazines a little faster as you can drop the spent mag with your trigger finger, bring up a fresh one and instead of "dropping the bolt" with your support hand, start moving that into position while you let the bolt go with your trigger finger. You can still work the catch normally, obviously, but it lets you move a little quicker.<br />No problem there.<br /><br />But here's what rubbed me the wrong way and it's with the 'religious' faction of the shooting community out there. Those who believe the 1911 was designed by His Holiness John Moses Browning and must never be sullied by guide rods, flared mag wells or the like.&nbsp; Or The Lord Eugene Stoner betrothed this Holy AR upon the masses and we must bow down before Its wonder and majesty, never to alter his Creation. "<b>ALL HAIL GLOCK!</b> <b>ALL HAIL GLOCK!"</b><br />Comments from this group ranged from "It'll cause the bolt catch to engage or at least cause it to rub against the bolt, causing early failure." to "What, you'll save half a second engaging the bolt normally?" to my favorite "Devices like this will make it harder for you to pick up someone else's gun in the middle of a firefight and operate it properly. Don't use this on your duty weapon."<br />First off, this part was developed by Magpul, who is a leader in developing parts for the AR platform. You don't get to the leader status by making things that can cause a weapon to fail or function improperly. Yes, some people make thing that are just to make a buck. I get it. But Magpul? Yeah...<br />Yes, shaving time off is what you want if you happen to find yourself in a real life gun battle (maybe .1% of people in the "civilian" world, but...). And if this was for a competition setup, that .5-1 second shaving is the difference between first and loser.<br />Finally - Unless you are in a situation where all of your guns are issued to you or you ALL buy the exact same guns and don't modify them, everyone has different guns out there. You may have a grip sleeve on your Glock 22 and your partner doesn't. You may have an HK P30 and the buddy you're hunting with has a S&amp;W M&amp;P 9. If you ever find yourself having to pick up someone else's gun, you're going to have to take a moment to figure it out. Even basic things like triggers, grips, or stock positions differ from gun to gun and person to person. While something can be said for the idea of "train how you fight", that gun you just picked up isn't yours and will require an adjustment. Get over it.<br /><br />We are sometimes our own worst enemies. It's one thing to be critical of someone who's making their guns unsafe, but the idea that artistic or ergonomic changes require you to become a dick is beyond the pale. I may think in part of my head that this is sort of silly...<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4eB73FVNGb8/UZkLZOBLwGI/AAAAAAAAAnE/ytRQSwldYrE/s1600/CasherpinkARduracoatdonebyjimsgunsu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4eB73FVNGb8/UZkLZOBLwGI/AAAAAAAAAnE/ytRQSwldYrE/s320/CasherpinkARduracoatdonebyjimsgunsu.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>...if it floats your boat and makes you happy with your firearm, have at it. Besides, there's an adage out there that says "It takes a real man to wear a pink shirt."<br /><br />Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06952019992793874926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372122494404241074.post-67711628908373139712013-05-02T14:13:00.002-07:002013-05-02T14:13:48.065-07:00Great H.L. Mencken articleI'll post something of substance shortly, but I can across this today and thought "Almost 100 years later and we're fighting almost the exact same fight. Somehow pathetic"<br /><a href="http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23483" target="_blank"><br /></a><a href="http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23483" target="_blank"><b>THE UPLIFTERS TRY IT AGAIN<i> by H. L. Mencken (Copyright, 1925, by The Evening Sun. Republication without credit not permitted.)</i></b></a><br /><br />Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06952019992793874926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372122494404241074.post-62529998416163807722013-04-23T10:04:00.001-07:002013-05-02T14:14:03.326-07:00We're here to help<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-poRidYqzkRs/UXaVeunmXCI/AAAAAAAAAlc/nRjoAFNnS7Q/s1600/police+state.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="256" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-poRidYqzkRs/UXaVeunmXCI/AAAAAAAAAlc/nRjoAFNnS7Q/s320/police+state.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Last Tuesday, I was pretty right on when I said, "<a href="http://gabewanderingjew.blogspot.com/2013/04/and-so-it-begins.html" target="_blank">And so it begins...</a>"<br />As the world now knows, on Friday, the city of Boston and it's direct suburbs were basically under martial law. Let's not kid ourselves about semantics, because that's what it was. You were not allowed outside your home, you were not allowed on the street, police could search your home without a warrant (at gun point in some cases), police were patrolling the streets with "assault rifles"... actually, let me clarify that, assault rifles, because there was no use of the term "so called" here; these were the real deal, military style rifles, a vast majority with select fire or short barreled, meant strictly for offense. And the people of Boston complied and cheered.<br /><br />Fucking sheep.<br /><br />2 animals blew up a bomb, killed three, injured hundreds and the city goes into lock down. Yet for 30 years or more, the "Irish Mob" killed more people than that on a Saturday every week and they did as they pleased. That's a Thursday night in Chicago nowadays and people sigh. Hourly, our soldiers are ordered to do this overseas as well as are victims of this and people want to watch "Dancing With The Stars".<br /><br />I'd say I want to move away from this insanity, but I don't have the money or speak the language anywhere else to move there.<br /><br />People are getting into heated arguments over the actions taken by government Friday. So many people think it was wonderful and The Book Of Face was littered with all these "Go Boston!" items praising the police actions. The "2013 Hide &amp; Seek Champions", et al... Of course, it was a home owner who, when "allowed" to go outside, saw something weird with his boat and low and behold, douchenozzle was in there.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AqdToR20qwA/UXabxbQvV-I/AAAAAAAAAls/3Dj0v1zlfOI/s1600/boston_really.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AqdToR20qwA/UXabxbQvV-I/AAAAAAAAAls/3Dj0v1zlfOI/s320/boston_really.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>"They had to do something!"<br />"It was just one day. What's the big deal?"<br />"He was a terrorist and we had to use every means necessary to find him!"<br />"I didn't do anything wrong, so I didn't have anything to worry about." <br />"If this happened in your city, you'd want the same thing to happen!" - Oh that one's rich.<br />And it's cousin I saw on a YouTube video: "If he was in your house, holding your family hostage, you'd want the police to search and wouldn't care about a warrant."<br />Really, fuckstick? No, I wouldn't because the asshole would be dead in the doorframe with 2+ .40S&amp;W hollow point rounds in his torso. I'd be calling the police over to get him out before the flies started swarming.<br />And then, in the process of detaining this US citizen, he wasn't read his rights, which could mean he walks on a technicality. The RINO's charged and demanded he be held as an "enemy combatant". People shrugged and said, "He's a terrorist. Too bad." "This is a war on terror and the battlefield is everywhere."<br />Oceania is at war with Eurasia, Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/0A5vfyFyptQ/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"><param name="movie" value="http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/0A5vfyFyptQ&source=uds" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/0A5vfyFyptQ&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></div><br />Yesterday, Prince Michael of Nanytown declared that the Constitution needs to be reinterpreted. Last week, <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/04/us-house-representatives-shamefully-passes-cispa-internet-freedom-advocates" target="_blank">the CISPA bill</a> passed the US House, sneaking under the flood of news reports about the Boston bombing. After the people control bills failed in the Senate, King Barry I stomped his feet in the Rose Garden and proclaimed that he'd use executive orders to get his way.<br /><br />There's a few old statements that are becoming more and more true.<br />"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're <i>not</i> out to get you."<br />"It may seem like a conspiracy, but that doesn't mean it's not happening."<br />"Those who give up liberty for security will get and deserve neither."<br />Paraphrased that last one.<br /><br />I don't believe this was a "False Flag" or these guys were setup or this was CIA mind control or any of that other shit. I believe these were two wackjobs who believe the murderous tenants of radical Islamists and thought they were doing their part of the holy jihad. But just like Columbine, Virginia Tech, Tuscon, Aurora, Sandy Hook or going back to the Roaring 20's, when government sees the opportunity to control the populace due to the violence created by a minute set of individuals, they're going to do it. Our founders warned the newly free people of this and we didn't listen.<br />"Power, once granted, will be used." <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/VgrktRgjBXk/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"><param name="movie" value="http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/VgrktRgjBXk&source=uds" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/VgrktRgjBXk&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></div><br />The paint is peeling off the walls.Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06952019992793874926noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372122494404241074.post-71722010247287674612013-04-16T07:36:00.001-07:002013-05-02T14:14:03.328-07:00And so it begins...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-w4Zgd3NBLJ0/UW1ceN9IjyI/AAAAAAAAAlM/Uc4mthcekug/s1600/weeping-angel-fs.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-w4Zgd3NBLJ0/UW1ceN9IjyI/AAAAAAAAAlM/Uc4mthcekug/s320/weeping-angel-fs.png" width="240" /></a></div>The third person wasn't dead yet and already the Progressives were blaming "right wing extremists" on the Boston Marathon bombing. And the tin-foil hat crowd were already calling this a "False Flag" and it was a staged bombing by the .GOV black ops groups.<br />I had been working on another post but obviously the actions from yesterday sort of change your mindset and priority.<br /><br />We knew this would happen. Sorry, but no matter where you are, evil people exist and commit horrendous acts and there is pretty much nothing you can do about it. Even in the most extreme of police states, acts like this happen.<br />Could it be a "right-wing extremist"? Yes<br />Could it be a government operation? Yes<br />Could it be a religious extremist of the Muslim persuasion? Yes <br />Could it be a local gang member with a beef? Yes<br />Could it be a narco-syndicate trying to terrorize the people of Boston? Yes<br />Could it be a 80 year old who hated the world and wanted to go out with other people? Yes<br />Could it be a sociopath who "...just wanted to watch the world burn"? Yes<br />Because we don't know anything, it is 100% speculation right now. BUT... that doesn't mean the ramifications of this won't be deep and wide.<br />Last night, Rep Peter King already made calls for spending on surveillance and intelligence gathering.<br />The White House said that security needs to be increased.<br />The DHS is already being seen in more and more cities and this will increase their presence and intrusion.<br /><br />Life in a free country is difficult and painful. People will die from the hatred and ignorance of others. People will die from their own stupidity. Companies will fail, causing widespread suffering to many people, possible around the world. But to turn to government for the answers to these issues has never ended well.<br /><br />Last night, as with all night, I prayed to HaShem (Hebrew for "The Name" - a way that Jews refer to The Sovereign without calling Him by name. In the South, there is a respect for elders that's still generally being taught and because you don't know these people personally, you call them "Mr./Miss First Name". Consider HaShem to be the same respect to Him). I felt a pain rise up in me because we've taken this wonderful creation He's given us and made a mess of it. We've taken the freest country on Earth, never before seen, created by men who believed they were following His guidance, and brought it right back around to be just like the rest of the world, which means it'll suck ass. And as tears formed in my eyes, asking Him to be with those who were directly hurt by this despicable act, I also asked Him to have mercy on us for our ignorance. Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06952019992793874926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372122494404241074.post-74342141341922726312013-04-05T06:50:00.002-07:002013-04-05T06:51:14.817-07:00JPFP: Why Jews Hate Guns<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-egdRX2S0fVk/UV7WqPR2CkI/AAAAAAAAAks/O6CZ5zxMaKI/s1600/jpfo.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-egdRX2S0fVk/UV7WqPR2CkI/AAAAAAAAAks/O6CZ5zxMaKI/s1600/jpfo.gif" /></a></div><br />And excellent piece by Rabbi Dovid Bendory at the Jews for the Preservation of Firearm Ownership.<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i>It’s no secret that one of the largest blocs of people pressing for so-called “gun control” is the culturally (aka not-so-religious) American Jewish community. This confounds many observers who would expect that Jews, with such a stunning history of oppression and murder by humanity’s villains, would cling tenaciously to personal firearms and the ability to protect themselves as the Hebrew Scriptures instruct.</i><br /><i> </i><i>In reaction to the Holocaust, American Jews adopted the phrase “Never Again!” If actions mean anything, they don’t believe it. That’s for someone else to do. How do Jews expect to put teeth behind the words “Never Again!” if not with the ability to apply and project personal force when righteous -- and necessary -- for survival?</i><br /><i> </i><i>Why then do so many American Jews hate guns and fear gun ownership so much?</i><br /><i> </i><i>Our research identifies ten reasons why these Jews feel the way they do about self defense in general, firearms specifically and your own right to keep and bear arms.</i></blockquote><a href="http://jpfo.org/articles-assd02/why-jews-hate-guns.htm" target="_blank">Whole piece here...</a> Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06952019992793874926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372122494404241074.post-34848963943015841292013-04-04T09:47:00.001-07:002013-04-04T13:21:55.493-07:00But it's for the children<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tZRac12W_-I/UV2nXjWWbSI/AAAAAAAAAkc/C5utBUcz8ic/s1600/playground.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tZRac12W_-I/UV2nXjWWbSI/AAAAAAAAAkc/C5utBUcz8ic/s320/playground.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>I could have used that one on my post yesterday as well, as that phrase is used for pretty much every Statist/Progressive policy put in place. It's also <u><b><i>the </i></b></u>last refuge of a scoundrel. When backed into a corner, Progressives will whip this one out there and you're supposed to cower. Why? If you don't, "You hate children!"<br /><br />What I find ironic is they even use this to justify abortion. I may be of the conservative libertarian/classic liberal persuasion, but abortion is taking a life. Sorry if you don't like it, but my blog, my rules. Don't like it, go outside and play hide and go fuck yourself. Like all manner of killing, there are various degrees and levels of "justification". Because you couldn't take a pill, wrap it up, or just not fuck (heaven forbid, right) isn't one of them. If you're dying or they (the baby) are, that's a whole'nother matter. If you were raped, whole'nother matter. But because you couldn't deal with the concept that the primary purpose of sex is procreation, then it sucks to be you, deal with it.<br />To that end, Progressives, like King Barry I, make the excuse that abortion is okay because that child wouldn't be cared for or loved. Again, "It's for the children." So you're going to kill it because the birthing machine is too much of a fucking loser to take care of something it created? Sure, that makes sense. Somewhere. Maybe. Or not.<br /><br />Mandatory states sponsored education - It's for the children.<br />Federally controlled student loads - It's for the children.<br />Ban on transfats in cooking - It's for the children.<br />Ban on salt - It's for the children.<br />Ban on sugary drinks - It's for the children.<br />Gun bans, magazine bans, ammo bans - It's for the children.<br />Federal subsidies for failing green energy companies - It's for the children.<br />Difficulty getting quality porn - It's for the children. <br />Poorly edited movies on TV - It's for the children.<br />FUCK THE CHILDREN!!!<br />Hey, hey, HEY!!! Pederast!!! Get back here before I beat you with a bicycle chain.<br />Anyways...<br /><br />I have a wonderful daughter that has been the biggest blessing of my life. She's grown now, has a house, a husband, and is thinking of having her own. But when she was growing up, my wife and I were responsible for how she was raised, what she ate, what she watched, where she went and with whom, her education, etc... If some parents aren't doing this, too fucking bad. That's life. Some people suck at it and if they spawn, they will make it sucky for their children. I have a niece that is going to be pretty fucked up because her parents are screwed in the head. Not too much I can do about it, other than maybe be there when she falls.<br /><br />The concepts of "It's for the children" and "It's for your own good" are simply to control you. The people implementing them believe they know how to live your life better than you and so they're going to pass a law to make sure you do it, making you subservient to them. In this country, we have happily welcomed this because it sounded good:<br />Seat belt laws<br />Car seat laws<br />Helmet laws - motorcycle and bicycle<br />Drinking ages<br />Drug laws<br />Sex laws (prostitution, stripping, etc...)&nbsp; <br />All the shit in NYC<br />State education laws<br />Warning label laws <br />And so forth and so on <br />Somewhere along the way, you voted "Yes" on one of these or agreed with the idea, because you thought "Well yeah, that makes sense. I mean, come on, you've gotta be pretty stupid to go diving in a quarry, so I don't have a problem with it."<br />First 1, then 2, then 5, then 10, then 1000. It doesn't end.<br /><br />No one wants children to be harmed when action could be taken to prevent it. But 95 times out of 100, it's because A) The parent is a tard or B) The child is a tard (not literally). As the picture yesterday said, "You can't fix stupid". Your parent tells you not to put your hand on the stove because it's hot. You do. You burn yourself. Should there be a law against hot stoves? Give'em time, they'll make one. But what if you <b><i>did it again</i></b>? Sorry, you're a fucking retard! <i>This</i> is the problem we're dealing with and why "It's for the children" is allowed to rule the direction of the country.<br /><br />Statists think of us as children. They're there to help guide us to what is right, in their eyes. This is the utopia of the Progressive because they never want to grow up. As I mentioned before, they want to remain in that college aged "adolescences" all their lives. Someone else pays for their existence, they get to do whatever they please, and they don't have to do much beyond "making good grades"; I.E., do just enough to get by. Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06952019992793874926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372122494404241074.post-35882632831664778092013-04-03T11:40:00.003-07:002013-04-03T11:41:59.683-07:00More crap from the brainless<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3iQcGZz9p2Q/UVxKV303CsI/AAAAAAAAAj8/-oA3EuJ0TMs/s1600/stupid.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3iQcGZz9p2Q/UVxKV303CsI/AAAAAAAAAj8/-oA3EuJ0TMs/s320/stupid.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Back in early January, <a href="http://gabewanderingjew.blogspot.com/2013/01/guns-guns-guns.html" target="_blank">I posted some thoughts</a> on what I was hearing come out of the mouths of the intellectually challenged in regards to guns.<br />Since then, we've been treated to more craptastic nuggets of wisdom from the people who believe we're little children and need to be told what to do. Here are some that bring the line to my head "Are you that fucking stupid?"<br /><br />"40% of all gun sales were made without a background check"<br />King Barry I uses this line everywhere. You now here it from the bed wetters when they call into talk shows so it's "gone viral." The problem is, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/04/03/obama-criticized-for-using-dated-disputed-gun-stat-to-sell-background-checks/" target="_blank">it's founded in ancient data that is incredibly flawed</a>. Now, if by some miracle of polling (see the next one for my thoughts on polling), this was accurate, then <a href="http://cnsnews.com/blog/gregory-gwyn-williams-jr/70291049-background-checks-gun-purchases-under-obama" target="_blank">the number of gun sales since King Barry I first coronation in 2009 is approximately 98,407,468</a>. Over 28 million of which would be without a background check. In 4 years, 28 million guns changed hands in the US without a background check. I don't care which side of the spectrum you fall on, using simple logic, that doesn't even <i>sound </i>right.<br />I want to say this carefully and clearly, so bear with me.<br />I don't necessarily have a problem with the concept of a background check system. I don't want violent criminals, the criminally insane, Progressives (kidding, but not), or foreign nationals bent on my demise to be able to acquire the tools easily. They're going to do it if they really want you dead, so don't kid yourself, but I'd like it to be harder for them. I'd also like my penis to be 10" and get hard in a flash, but it's not going to happen so you see where liking things gets me. I think you get the idea.<br />But the issue with this system is multifaceted:<br />First it requires the compiling of these records. Who stores them? How accurate are they? Are they reviewed regularly?<br />Second - With so many things qualifying as a felon that are non-violent (mainly drug charges, but there are others),&nbsp; what classifies one as "Violent felon"?<br />Third - Who gets to use this system? If I were personally selling a gun to someone I didn't know all that well (friend of a friend), could I just call up and check this person out? If not, why not?<br />Fourth - How long are the records for the check itself retained? Are they flushed immediately after? Kept a week, month, year? Who keeps them honest for flushing the information?<br />Fifth - How else can these records (on both sides) be used?<br />When you start going down this road, you start risking impeding on the Natural rights of people and that's where you fuck things up. Governments have proven themselves time and again to be less than trustworthy when it comes to the privacy of their citizens. Could this be done by a private business?<br />Like the majority of things in this country, the sale and transfer of guns should be left to the people and the states, respectively, to determine what is and isn't proper FOR THEM. If Connecticut wants to ban guns, fine. Fuck Connecticut, I won't live there. If you live there and this idea bothers you, leave. You're not a slave to anyone, control your life. If NC wants to do it, then I have a serious problem and will fight tooth and nail to change that.<br /><br />"Polls show that the number of people owning guns is decreasing."<br />Polls suck. If I'm called by polling places 100 times a year, I maybe participate in 3 just for shits and giggles. As ya'll know, polls are only as good as the questions they ask or the data source. On top of that, unless you're asking a vast majority of the population, then your sample size is for shit. 2,000 people in a country of 300,000,000 is statistically 0.<br />On top of this, if someone I don't know asks me if I own guns on the phone, the answer is "No". I'm writing a blog where I'm telling the world I own guns and if someone calls on the phone and asks, I'm telling them to fry ice. So poll numbers don't mean jack.<br />If the numbers reported by the story up top are true, then over 70 million guns were sold in the US in the last 5 years and remember, this doesn't include sales where a background check call are not legally required by an FFL (In NC, concealed carry holders don't get checked because we're already went through a separate federal check to get the CCW permit). Let's be kind and say 10 million were multiple gun sales to the same person. 60 million people bought guns since the coronation of King Barry I. How many had guns before? How many are new buyers?<br />The numbers are deceptive and skewed, but if you tell a lie long enough, it becomes the truth, eh?<br /><br />You hear this one from the people who have tried all other arguments and are grasping at straws:<br />"Connecticut, New York, Maryland... they all get it right. But then people just go to Virginia or North Carolina or Arizona or Florida and buy guns and bring them back."<br />So they're violating the law by bring guns into states where they're illegal? They're criminals, right? Okay Sparky, I'll bite...<br />They're going to get a fake ID that has a clear background within the state they're purchasing, they're going to stand in front of the video cameras that are pointed at every gun counter in every store that sells them, they're going to fill out the 4473 form, wait for a check to be run, then cough up the hundreds of dollars to buy said gun from the store. They're going to do all that to bring the gun BACK into a state where that gun is illegal and kill someone on the street with it. Right... Hey, I have some great property in Southern Florida you need to look at. Water... front property.<br />Do straw purchases happen? Yup. Do some people lie on the 4473 form? Yup. Take all guns away from "civilians" and that'll solve the problem, right? Nope.<br />Cops have guns. The military has guns. Theft gets these criminals what they want all the time. They have no problem killing people to get what they want. Do you think they're going to give a shit about a fence? Or the life of a cop? Drug money buys people what they want. Time is on their side because we're defenseless. Gang member with a fake ID joins the military, gets through boot, gets stationed on a US base, kills the armorer, rips off the armory and viola, street gang gets military grade ordinance. Obviously complex, but like I said, time is on their side.<br />England and Australia are island nations. They all but banned guns and surprisingly, criminals get guns. We have a land border with an all but narco-terrorist nation that mules tons of drugs across our border weekly. Do you think it'll be a stretch for them to move guns across that border? There'd be a black market for them and guess who'd buy them?<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-N1PHY3PeqjM/UVx2UVc-AbI/AAAAAAAAAkM/HzpArvGf6R8/s1600/triple_facepalm_by_pip3r_cz-d3e6t06.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-N1PHY3PeqjM/UVx2UVc-AbI/AAAAAAAAAkM/HzpArvGf6R8/s320/triple_facepalm_by_pip3r_cz-d3e6t06.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>As all these state laws go into effect, the tide is turning against the Statists. At least in word. People are getting tired of the crap. And it does look like Magpul will leave Colorado. Beretta has "threatened" to leave Maryland, as have some with Connecticut. Until these actions happen, until the large companies like Sturm Ruger, Colt, Mossberg, or Beretta <i><u><b>actually</b></u></i> pick up and leave a Statist run state, then it's all talk. But it's nice to hear it.Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06952019992793874926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372122494404241074.post-83827781944617728292013-03-31T16:50:00.001-07:002013-03-31T16:50:41.663-07:00A moment of reflection<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">&nbsp;<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HynQXupZnxQ/UVjChCdOjuI/AAAAAAAAAjs/-SIkPg5dnJ8/s1600/torah.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="233" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HynQXupZnxQ/UVjChCdOjuI/AAAAAAAAAjs/-SIkPg5dnJ8/s320/torah.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>I don't talk much about my faith here, as it's something that I keep close. It's not for fear, but a respect for the few who chose to read my rants and while I don't know any of you, I can be all but certain that you're not Jewish. The Tribe is small.<br />But as it so happens, the Jewish and Gregorian calendars meshed and Pesach (Passover) and Easter fall in the same week. Two holy days of the religions of Abraham happening so close when our calendars are out of whack is infrequent so as such, I'm prone to reflection. What's funny and sometimes forgotten is that Jesus of Nazareth, the mensch that he was, was celebrating Passover for the Last Supper.<br /><br />Religion is under attack in this country. What's tragic about it is it's not those on the outside that are the most worrisome. It's those inside it that are eating it alive and making it but a shell of what it was supposed to be; a way to live your life to honor the teachings of G-d.<br />And so you don't mistake me for pointing fingers, I'm equally to blame. As a Jew, I'm supposed to keep kosher. It's a simply-complex set of dietary guidelines and I don't keep to it except on Shabbat (Sabbath) and even then I sometimes fall off the wagon. Bacon, cheeseburgers, barbeque, etc... I don't have the self-discipline to just say no. In the grand scheme of things, this is minor. As are my tattoos (another law against those for Jews). The bigger issues, and for this I will point fingers, are when it comes to the most holy of days for our religions.<br /><br />The commercialization of the birth and death of your savior, Christians, that's all on you. Yes, yes, I know, it's been happening for decades, but you know you feed into it. How many gifts do you give to your children/spouse/friends/family/etc... for Christmas? You spend so much time shopping and toiling for "the holidays" that you forget why you're doing it. Sure, you go to church on or around the day, but think deep: do you really do it because you are truly celebrating the birth or is it because it's expected?<br />Easter - How did you let a pagan symbol (the rabbit) take charge of what for you should be THE MOST holy of days? It's become about candy and eggs and candy eggs and pastels and... come on?? When I was young, I remember that at around the time on Good Friday when Jesus was said to have died on the cross (around 3:00pm - though they did it using local time), the churches in town would all ring their bells, symbolizing his crying out as he gave up his spirit. I don't hear of this happening anymore.<br /><br />For Jews, we, I feel, defile our most holy of days, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, in a worse way. The temple I belonged to up north; the founders of that temple wanted the doors to be open for all who wanted to come and worship and celebrate the Torah. You didn't have to become a temple member, unless you wanted to be a board member. No pressure to give or anything. Come and worship and if you feel at home, maybe you'll wish to help support the temple. That's what I did. I came to temple to pray and to learn, but as I felt closer and closer to the people, I wanted to help, so I willingly became a member and wound up on the board of the temples' brotherhood (think mens club). During the High Holy days, I saw people I'd never seen all year come to pray. And that's how we were.<br />But outside of those few bastions of welcoming, there is the concept of "Pay To Pray". Many, many temples sell tickets for the services for Yom Kippur and Rosh HaShanah. I fully understand that these are intense undertakings for most temples (2 days of prayer each, with multiple services, and after the last service on Yom Kippur, a break fast), but to demand "tribute", if you'll forgive the term, so that you can join fellow Jews in praising HaShem for creation (Rosh Hashanah) and then begging him for mercy on your sole and asking for forgiveness (Yom Kippur) makes me uncomfortable. Like the things HaShem commands of us, if I undertook them willingly, that is donating to the temple to help them put these on, I'd probably give more than they charge for tickets. But like too many Jews, who lose the concept of <i>tikkun olam </i>(freely translated, it means heal the world -&nbsp; healing the afflicted, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, comforting the bereaved) by demanding government take these actions through theft of the peoples labor (I.E., taxation), they've lost the idea that the shul (synagogue) is a place of worship and charging admission is skeevy.<br /><br />If those of us who have faith don't reclaim our religions, then the secularists will be more than happy to pound them to dust.<br />And I don't mean we all have to drop our lives, study Torah for hours on end or become monks or missionaries and devote our lives to living the Bible completely. But we need to realize what our faiths are and what it is about our chosen religions that make us proud to say we're Jews or Christians and <i>take that back</i>.<br /><br />L'shalom, my Christian friends. Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06952019992793874926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372122494404241074.post-51147031000061343162013-03-29T09:09:00.001-07:002013-03-29T09:09:12.023-07:00GET OUT OF THE WAY!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bcYGXAA7Ruc/UVLdH3sdxmI/AAAAAAAAAjc/mC-fn7ZUaTw/s1600/road-rage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bcYGXAA7Ruc/UVLdH3sdxmI/AAAAAAAAAjc/mC-fn7ZUaTw/s320/road-rage.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />As part of my job now, I drive a lot. 40,000 miles a year isn't uncommon. Because of this, I am extremely "sensitive" to people driving like assholes. Now after I fly past them, I'm sure they think the same of me, but I am never an ass to someone who isn't driving like a cock with ears.<br />I could go on and on about how the laws surrounding driving are asinine in their own right. Highway speeds are too slow. Secondary road speeds are completely arbitrary. Most traffic lights seem to have been put in place because someone bitched, not to move traffic efficiently. It's all fucked. I could go on endlessly about government interfering where it should mind its own business (yeah, I know, like I haven't already), but my biggest problem is with people who get behind the wheel of their rolling masses of death without a brain.<br /><b>Biggest issue:</b> People don't really learn how to drive. Sure, many teenagers take "drivers education", but it gives them the basics, maybe, and everything else they're supposed to learn while they're driving on their own or with their parents. If their parents suck as drivers, then their kids are going to suck. And 95% of what they teach kids is driving in and around town. Highway driving seems to be an afterthought for these "schools" and as such, you get people on the highway and it's all over.<br />Tie into this that it isn't a requirement. If you can show a "testing officer" you're not going to drive into a pole, they give you a license. Obviously, I haven't had to take a driving test in a long time, but mine was around the block, parallel park, back in, got my license. Sure, there's a written test, but really, if you read the manual and take it right away after, you'll pass.<br /><br />Driving properly takes a high level of skill. Doesn't seem it, but it truly does. You have to constantly be watching ahead of you. You have to anticipate that the clown ahead with their left blinker on is actually going to cut across two lanes and go left. You have to be ready for the ass clown following too close to you is going to smack into your bumper when you have to hit the brakes hard because the guy in front of you acts like a dick. Tire blow outs, debris, animals, douche nozzles just stepping off the curb and walking blindly into the road. Coordinating speed through a turn so you don't enter too fast, you maintain speed through it, you don't lane drift. But people fuck it up because they're entirely self-absorbed.<br /><br />A pet peeve for me is the<b> <span style="color: red;">"Me" </span></b>culture. As I've mentioned, all actions are personal and done for self gratification. No one is <i>truly</i> altruistic. Studies have been done that show if you don't care about your self and only care for others, you'll be dead in a month. We help others because we want to feel better about ourselves. That's not a knock or some odd form of condescension, it is what it is. I do it because I believe it's right and I don't want to "harm" myself. But it's this shift from doing things <i><b>for others </b></i>to make yourself happy to expecting others to do something <i><b>for you</b></i>. This translates perfectly to the highways and biways<br /><br />Lane discipline grinds the shit out of me. If the term is a little lost on you, it's simple: The farther left you go, the faster you go. If you're not passing, move right. The fucking signs on the road even say it. But this is a pipe dream to the modern driver. People get out in that left lane and stay there until they have to turn. I wouldn't even mind if they were paying attention to their mirrors and when they saw a rocket barreling up on them, they got out of the way before that person had to slow down. No... scratch that... it still bugs the shit out of me. Unless you're turning left within 1/4 mile, MOVE THE FUCK OVER!<br />I'm sure someone out there is calling me a hypocrite, because I'm telling others to get out of <b>my</b> way, but that's the way the road is designed and guess what, the law even says so. Now, I'm potentially breaking it by flying down the highway at speeds that... well... you get the point, but it is the way it is. This is why we couldn't have an American version of the Autobaun.&nbsp; Driving at high speeds on a highway requires people to pay attention to all other moving items around them and to maintain strict lane discipline. If you're not passing, move, period. <br />It's been my experience that the two "groups" more prone to this than others are old white people and black women. Sorry if you find that offensive, but it's been what I've seen. Put a hat on the old white guy and it all goes to shit; run for cover, because they will fuck up your road experience. Pull over. Get some coffee. Let them get home before you get back on the road because they cause havoc.<br /><br />I won't complain much about assholes on their phone or texting. Others may say they can do it alright, it's the <i>other guy</i> who can't, but it's all bullshit. You're distracting yourself from driving, fuck you, you're a cunt. End of that complaint.<br /><br />Pedestrians. When I was young, if you ran out into the street or even walked out and your parents caught you, they'd smack you in the head or ass, depending on your parents attitude and how old you are. It was to tell you "Hey, dumbass, do that again and you're gonna get hit, it's gonna hurt, stop doing that." Now, thanks to the nanny laws, you are <i>required</i> to stop for a pedestrian. Doesn't matter if they just blindly step out; you are legally required to stop. And people have come to expect this. They have forgotten about something called "The Law Of Gross Tonnage"<br />This is more of a boating term, but the principal applies: While the "rules" may state otherwise, common sense says that larger boats and ships have the right of way over smaller ones because they are less maneuverable and can't see as well. In a previous life, I dealt with this a lot and would see a single mast sailboat turn directly in front of a 100+ ton loaded commuter boat underway. That's a great way to get yourself killed.<br />Same thing for driving and pedestrians: You are 100x more maneuverable than a car in motion. 2 tons on wheels takes longer to stop than 150lbs on 2 legs. "But by the law, they're supposed to stop!" As Dad used to say; "Just because you're right doesn't make it hurt any less."<br />This is another example of the <span style="color: red;"><b>"Me"</b></span> culture.<br /><br />The other collection of fucktards I could do without are the people who can't stand being passed. As you move left and try to pass them, they speed up, meaning you need to speed up even faster and they keep speeding up. Or, after you pass them and move right, they speed up and pass you, just to slow down again. There's a smaller minority who, after you pass them, they will speed up, pass you, then stay ahead of you without slowing down. They still suck, but not as bad. This tends to be younger men who do these things and younger black men who pass you and stay at speed. I don't mind being the head of a snake (line of people speeding and as you pass someone, they see that if they keep up, the chances of being caught speeding diminish, so they join the line), but don't be a cock.<br /><br />Lastly, speed. I would fathom a guess and say 85% of drivers exceed the posted speed limit regularly. But the biggest issue here is time and place. You see way too many people driving 50 through neighborhoods, while they'll barely do 70 in a 65 on the highway. Or you're driving through a 20MPH school zone, kids are walking all around, and someone is right on your ass. Hit the highway and they're left-lane huggers down 5MPH under. Or they know they're driving slower than shit, on a no-passing 2 lane road, they can obviously see the line they're building up, but instead of considering the people behind them and pulling over, they just keep on it.<br />The flip of this is people driving incredibly slow for the stupidest of things. Cop pulled someone over on the <i>opposite side</i> of the highway. "Hey, fuckstain, they're not gonna forget that guy, jump in their car, and come after you." Rubberneckers should be shot. And I'm <i>dead serious</i> about that. I was caught in a 5 mile, 10mph backup because people were slowing down to see the all lane closing accident on the opposite side of a wide median divided highway "Hey man, everyone wants to see it." No I don't, fuck you, get out of the way, cockmuncher. <br />And the last on speed are the yo-yo's. They don't really have the skills to manage the throttle (gas pedal), so they speed up to 50, slow down to 40, speed up to 50, slow down to 40. I will pass them on a double-yellow just to get the fuck away from them.<br /><br />I've been driving my ass off in the last two weeks, so I need to vent. My request to them below.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object width="320" height="266" class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/R1xkDUZwZBg/0.jpg"><param name="movie" value="http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/R1xkDUZwZBg&source=uds" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/R1xkDUZwZBg&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></div><br /><br /><br />Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06952019992793874926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372122494404241074.post-68997095972975710032013-03-18T09:54:00.000-07:002013-04-09T06:39:36.660-07:00The level of stupidity is staggering<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J8o5jtKNwSo/UUc622NKJTI/AAAAAAAAAjE/M_eB92Z1Wyk/s1600/hey-you-there-sir-you-hungry-well-then-eat-a-dick-fool.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J8o5jtKNwSo/UUc622NKJTI/AAAAAAAAAjE/M_eB92Z1Wyk/s320/hey-you-there-sir-you-hungry-well-then-eat-a-dick-fool.jpg" width="243" /></a></div><br />I don't know why I read comments on articles anymore. People make my eyes bleed, they really do. And it's not even just the comments anymore. Some of the articles are as daffy as fuck.<br /><br />The common argument used to defend restrictions on the Natural right to defend ones self from oppression, protected federally by the 2nd Amendment is "restrictions" on the 1st:<br /><i>"You can't yell fire in a crowded theater." </i>Or as one assmonkey in a comment said, <i>"Child pornography is illegal. So no restrictions on speech would make child porn legal. You want child porn legal."</i><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FBRTPRkKMR4/UUc8MerQV7I/AAAAAAAAAjM/Vhz3fmBX4eY/s1600/screamingeyes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FBRTPRkKMR4/UUc8MerQV7I/AAAAAAAAAjM/Vhz3fmBX4eY/s320/screamingeyes.jpg" width="188" /></a></div>Fuckin' hell!!! In what way does <b>A </b>have to do with <b>B</b>? And I'm not even comparing the two "freedom of speech" items.<br />In what manner does my possession of firearms harm you? Single shot guns, revolvers, semi-auto guns, bolt action rifles, lever action guns, shotguns, automatic firearms, "high capacity magazines" 1,000's of rounds of ammunition... in what manner do any of these affect your life unless/until I decide to use them against another human being? Even if used in a way that causes an "accidental firing", the chances of you being hurt by them is miniscule at best, zilch at average.<br />The "restrictions" on the 1st amendment (and it's not a free speech issue at all) are because they cause direct harm to others. The "<i>fire</i> in a theater" is attempting to prevent causing a riot. Unless there is a fire, the only action your scream such would cause is a rush to exit, possibly resulting in people being trampled or otherwise injured. There is no other outcome to be expected.<br />As for the fucknut's suggestion of child porn: You're raping a child and filming it. The thought of that alone is enough to make people nauseous. I don't think I have to explain the concept of <i>direct harm</i> here.<br /><br />It would be like saying "My religion requires that I kidnap and sacrifice a virgin to appease my deity." Really, Skippy? So the rights of this virgin are subservient to your needs?<br /><br />My possession of guns, ammunition, and accessories in no way detracts from your Natural rights to live unmolested. It's not until you decide to purposely cross into my life with the intent on harming me or restricting my Natural rights will they be used against you. If I attempted to do so without provocation, then I should be punished. Pretty simple.<br /><br />Now this line of reasoning often leads the average Sheeple to bleat "So people should be able to own rockets and tanks and nuclear weapons, huh???"<br />Shake your head with a chuckle, sigh, and walk away. They're not going to listen to you anyways. <b>However...</b> if they're doing this just to be contrarian, then the retort is:<br />If I use any manner of firearm, up to and including automatic weapons, in the proper way, I will only affect my intended target. Even if used sloppily, my chances of harming others beyond my target is minimal. If I'm using it for slaughter, if you'll excuse the term but it fits, then a single person with a .22LR ends my actions.<br />As for, shall we say, high end ordinance: Proper usage means multiple casualties. Period. End of discussion. Accidental discharge creates a whole new world of shit. "Misuse" a nuke and there goes Vegas. Even properly used... get the idea, kids?<br /><br />Yes, trying to speak rationally with an irrational person is like trying to have sex with a virgin 19 year old girl who's doing kegal exercises and you have whiskey dick. May sound like a great idea at the start, but you're not going to get anywhere but frustrated.<br /><br />THIS is the level of moron we're dealing with in the struggle for liberty. They don't want it because it's too hard and requires them to think for themselves. Their numbers are growing. Ours may be as well, but I don't think it'll be fast enough. People who claim to be for liberty still vote for John McCain, Lindsey Graham, John Boehner, and Mittens Romney.<br /><br />In 1776, the men who declared that we were a free republic knew the consequences of their actions "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." And if it weren't for a key battle or two turning the tides, they certainly would have. With assmonkey's out there having the beliefs above and the rank-and-file Republicans considering a Yea vote for "universal background checks", what chance does freedom have in our time? <br /><br />Sorry to be a downer on a Monday, but the sky is dark and the light keeps fading. Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06952019992793874926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372122494404241074.post-74473209759262896262013-03-15T11:19:00.000-07:002013-03-15T11:19:12.297-07:00Bid/Auction sites<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vo9s30n8M8Q/UUMr8J-xnyI/AAAAAAAAAi0/QBps9NWYaS4/s1600/and-now-for-something-completely-different.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vo9s30n8M8Q/UUMr8J-xnyI/AAAAAAAAAi0/QBps9NWYaS4/s320/and-now-for-something-completely-different.jpg" width="225" /></a></div>I tend to buy my firearms through local dealers and ammo, in bulk, I buy online. I generally don't do the reverse because I usually don't find it cost efficient. It's not a knock, per say, on either side of the transaction, because I have no qualms about somebody making a buck (If someone's a shiester and I buy blindly from them, I'm the asshole because I should have known better - case in point to follow), but I find that I can buy ammo cheaper online (especially now) and guns cheaper at my local shops.<br />I do peruse some online dealers and on one, I saw the site BidGunner. It's a "penny bid" auction site. If you've never been to one of these, here's the idea:<br />Someone provides a product. Let's say it's an H&amp;K P30 9mm. The bidding starts at $.01. You buy a pack of bids. These packs are roughly $1/bid. That's important to remember! So you bid, I bid, Charlie bids, Frank bids, Sue bids, etc... The winning price climbs by $.01 for every bid. So, you get into a bidding war and after some hours/days, someone wins the product for X amount. <i>&nbsp;</i><br /><i>Here's where it gets slippery and why, after buying 50 bids and going through a couple auctions, I walked away from that place shaking my head going, "Never fucking again, I'm such a dumbass."</i><br />Let's say that P30 9mm has a retail price of $850. On the auction site, let's say the final winning bid was $25. This means, you pay BidGunner (or it's provider of firearms, Buds Gun Shop) $25, minus the bids you put in, and the gun is yours. Sweet deal!!! Ah, ah, ah... here's the trick. The site got $2,500 for that gun. Remember, every bid is roughly $1 to purchase and in the auction, each bid is worth $.01. So, to make $25, 2,500 bid were put in.<br /><br />YES, it only costs you the total amount of bids and if you were able to play it right, you only paid say $20. Hell, maybe you only paid $100, for an $850 gun. But you need to look at the larger picture and realize that your actions just gave that company a fuckwad of money over and above what they could get at retail AND, you also paid them for the bids in all the auctions you didn't win. <br /><br />Standard auction sites, like GunBroker or eBay for example, work in standard dollar bids. If you bid $50 and you win, you pay $50. Penny bid sites, and this applies to general sites like Quibids and Beezid as well, work on psychology and because your <b>bid</b> is only $.01, you mind comes to the conclusion that that's all you're paying. So at the end of bidding, if you won with the final bid being $50, you think that's all the selling is getting for it. No, they just got $5,000 for something (minus fees). <br /><br />Let me make this clear: These sites are doing nothing illegal or if you will, underhanded. They lay out exactly what they're doing in their explanations. <i><b>But</b></i>, they DO play off the human psyche and let you forget that they're making out like bandits. Like all auction sites, anyone selling something without a "reserve" is gambling. But they're playing the odds that enough people will want this item so they'll fight over it.<br /><br />Knowledge is power. Before you go into anything having to do with money, think <i>very carefully </i>about what you're getting into. Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06952019992793874926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372122494404241074.post-88856327141979564102013-03-13T12:36:00.000-07:002013-03-13T12:36:00.316-07:00A warning<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kFF6FCHpyZc/UUDU0HJBMaI/AAAAAAAAAik/mZbLBhRsnGE/s1600/Warning+Poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kFF6FCHpyZc/UUDU0HJBMaI/AAAAAAAAAik/mZbLBhRsnGE/s640/Warning+Poster.jpg" width="499" /></a></div><br />Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06952019992793874926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372122494404241074.post-6224732569088345212013-03-12T12:11:00.001-07:002013-03-29T09:09:53.395-07:00Death by a thousands cuts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ctA3LLVD3R8/UT9qBi_u9cI/AAAAAAAAAiM/UlSe7PkiJJk/s1600/I_Want_Your_Money_UncleSam.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ctA3LLVD3R8/UT9qBi_u9cI/AAAAAAAAAiM/UlSe7PkiJJk/s200/I_Want_Your_Money_UncleSam.jpg" width="148" /></a></div>Before "the rant", let me say that I used to be one of those guys who got into "comment wars" on various news and opinion sites. Years back, I thought if I presented my points clearly enough, I could convince a fleeb to change their minds or at least accept a differing opinion.<br />I have since stopped this foolishness because reason caught up to me and had its dirty way with me and I realized that A) Progressives don't accept differing opinions. You will follow the flock or you'll be attacked by the dogs. B) These chodes live for this crap. They <i>want</i> to get into a comment war so they can try and flex their "intellectual muscle" and show you how stupid you are. Their arguments are often circular, they usually resort to emotional retorts, their understanding of history is Statist driven at best, they have absolutely NO concept of economics beyond "It's hard and boring", and when you narrow down their arguments to everything, it's "More Government", never less.<br /><br />Talked about this a little in previous posts, but the idea of cuts to the federal governments' spending is, well... flawed. Let me explain.<br />Progressives (of both parties) keep talking about spending cuts. King Barry I talked over and over again about his $2.5 trillion in cuts he's planning. New budgets being discussed in the cesspool known as Congress are going so far as to talk about $4.6 trillion in cuts. Along with all of this, they talk about the need to "raise revenue" in conjunction with these cuts. Cuts sound great, until you get into the meat of it, then it's like that chicken dish they serve at banquets and weddings. They call it Chicken Cordon Bleu, but when you get into it, you can't tell what the meat is on the outside, what that rolled meat in the inside is and there's some sort of Cheese Whiz leaking out of it that makes you think someone jizzed in this before they plated it. Sorry, that's a disgusting image, but the point is the same.<br /><br />A) All of these cuts they talk about: These are all "over 10 years". So, break out your calculator, kids, and lets do math if you can't do it in your head (nowadays, it's a toss-up who can and can't). Divide 4.6 trillion by 10. Answer? 460 billion. Very good.<br />If you didn't get this number, leave. You're too fucking stupid and I've reached my end of dealing with stupid people. <br />So, their cuts are $460 billion a year. The federal government is <i><u><b>overspending</b></u></i> by $1.4 trillion <b>ANNUALLY</b>. Let's round things out and say it's $1.46 trillion. Subtract 460 billion from 1.46 trillion and you get... 1 trillion. Good for you. Get yourself a donut.<br />The federal government is overspending $1 trillion dollars EVERY FUCKING YEAR! So these cuts don't solve anything. It's like taking a cadaver out of the freezer and trying to give it a shot of adrenaline and use a defibrillator to get the heart started again. It's fucking dead!<br />First, the government <i>assumes</i> that tax receipts will increase because the economy will increase. Last year, didn't happen. So that assumption if out the window.<br />Second, these cuts are 99.9% of the time to <b>proposed</b> spending. What does that mean? Let's say King Barry I wants to spend $100 million on breath mints for dogs. Members of Congress who are dog owners, or who have manufacturers of breath mints in their states, think this is a marvelous idea. However, they want to be seen as "fiscally conservative", so they put it in a bill as $50 million. They will then come out and say "We cut $50 million dollars from the budget King Barry I put forth." King Barry I cries out about the draconian cuts to his budget. The rank and file in both parties defend their assclowns and the bill for breath mints for dogs goes through at $75 million. Republicans say they saved us $25 million. That shell game is a little tough to follow, but that's D.C. and guess what it all means? <b><i>We spent $75 million dollars more than we did last year on a program that the federal government has no authority to operate! </i></b>But hey, they cut $25 million, right?<br />No, no cuts are made.<br /><br />B) If by some miracle, an actual cut is made, it's designed to be the most painful possible. We've seen this with "The Sequester".<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Khis7q_oE9g/UT917437gOI/AAAAAAAAAiU/2ORHjeyTwcU/s1600/sequester.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="115" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Khis7q_oE9g/UT917437gOI/AAAAAAAAAiU/2ORHjeyTwcU/s320/sequester.gif" width="320" /></a></div>King Barry I stood out there in front of "police and firefighters" and decried how these "cuts" would effect our safety, education, food safety, and blah blah blah... I won't even touch the fact that the federal government has no businesses funding these services, as they're all local matters. The fucking states have no businesses being involved in funding these (beyond food safety <i>maybe</i>). Even if you look at the <i>one thing</i> that they talk about cutting that the federal government has a Constitutional mandate to fund, that being the military, if we can't cut our funding for that, what the fuck have we become? Instead of closing bases around the world, the Progressives demand that we close bases here. Make it hurt!<br />But at the same time they're crying about making these cuts of people, <b>they're fucking hiring more people! </b>Out the front door, in the back door. Holy fuck in a bucket... this is insane!<br /><br />C) Raising revenue=tax increases. And make no mistake, these are all aimed at "The Rich". Today, "The Rich" means anyone who makes over $150,000 a year. That may seem like a lot, but it all depends on where you are. If you're in the Northeast or West Coast, it's middle-class at best. If you're in Appalachia, yup, you're rich. <br /><a href="http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2011/03/feed-your-family-on-10-billion-a-day.html" target="_blank">Iowahawk</a>, via a great presentation by Bill Whittle, does a fabulous job detailing how "getting the rich to pay their fair share" is complete bullshit.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object width="320" height="266" class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://0.gvt0.com/vi/661pi6K-8WQ/0.jpg"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/661pi6K-8WQ&fs=1&source=uds" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/661pi6K-8WQ&fs=1&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></div><br />It can't be done people. European countries are devolving into riots because of cuts to Statist programs like government pensions, government healthcare, government education, government assistance, and so on. What happens when it comes to Americas shores? Which it will.<br />We're so fucking broke and no one wants to face it because it means pain. We live our lives trying to avoid pain at all costs. But the only way this country recovers is through pain. Pain of collapse and subsequent rebuilding or pain of revolution and a new path forward. And on the opposite side of these actions, is uncertainty, because whomever is left "in control" will determine the outcome. <br /><br />Every morning and every night, I pray to HaShem (G-d to the non-Hebrews out there). In the morning, I pray that with His help, I'll make it through the day. That I won't cause harm to others who haven't harmed me. That I'll help those that I can. That I'll defend those who need me to in whatever way I can. Everything else, it's on me and He can judge me at another date and time for what I did. At night, I give thanks for those who've helped me. I ask that I see the morning. I ask that tomorrow, HaShem will give wisdom to those in our government so that they'll see how badly they're fucking things up. I then apologize to HaShem for swearing at Him and tell Him I understand that it's like that rock He made that He can't lift. He agrees with a laugh and I go to bed.<br /><br /><br />Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06952019992793874926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372122494404241074.post-76923337231494045382013-03-11T12:53:00.003-07:002013-04-03T11:40:55.095-07:00Of course it's a lie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wku3ndU7_Bc/UT33DL3Gb3I/AAAAAAAAAhs/3Q8u_2_GnIw/s1600/tsa.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wku3ndU7_Bc/UT33DL3Gb3I/AAAAAAAAAhs/3Q8u_2_GnIw/s1600/tsa.jpeg" /></a></div><br />Did you expect anything else?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/11/10-of-the-most-shocking-revealing-secrets-from-an-alleged-former-tsa-agent-its-all-for-show/" target="_blank">10 of the Most Shocking &amp; Revealing Secrets from an Alleged Former TSA Agent: ‘It’s All for Show'</a><br /><br />This whole thing is kabuki theater. It always has been. It's like most laws meant to protect you; such as gun laws. Up until the 1960's, you could buy a gun from the Sears catalog. You could walk into you local hardware store, see that rifle or shotgun and ask to buy it. The clerk would look at you sideways, determine for themselves you weren't a criminal, and then sell it to you. Fuck, you could buy a <b>cannon</b> through mail-order. But then we put in all these laws and surprisingly, crime didn't decrease. Wow... shocking.<br />Air travel? It used to be a thing of leisure. You'd actually get dressed up for it. Now, most people won't actually get dressed up to walk outside their homes and while I'm certainly as guilty of this as the next guy, but there comes a point when it's ridiculous, no?<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4WBxfZ6PAOQ/UT34tOUABPI/AAAAAAAAAh0/5-asNv9t0nY/s1600/skimpy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="129" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4WBxfZ6PAOQ/UT34tOUABPI/AAAAAAAAAh0/5-asNv9t0nY/s200/skimpy.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>I like hot women as much as the next guy, but wearing this in public? Everyone raises holy hell about how "Men see women as just sexual objects!!!" You wonder why? Don't misconstrue this as some excuse for vile animals to rape or molest women who dress like this, but have some level of decency, and respect for yourself, will ya?<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z2348edrkYw/UT340fyaJtI/AAAAAAAAAh8/2z5bhnR3i-c/s1600/NC_Pajamas0117_16x9.1326826450.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="112" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z2348edrkYw/UT340fyaJtI/AAAAAAAAAh8/2z5bhnR3i-c/s200/NC_Pajamas0117_16x9.1326826450.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>And then there's the polar opposite of just being fucking lazy. "I'll just dress like a slob and wear PJ's today." Again, self respect is a marvelous thing. Try buying yourself some.<br /><br /><br />And yes, both pictures are of women. Get over it. I did a couple quick Bing searches and came up with these. Back to my point...<br /><br />So as we started implementing all this security bullshit at the airport, that should have stopped hijackings and smuggling and all this stuff, to make us "safer". Oh wait... it didn't. Wow! I'm so shocked! As shocked as I was about the conclusions in "Super Size Me" that eating McDonalds 3 times a day, every day, isn't healthy. Why? Because the idea is flawed.<br />This is not to infer that some level of protection or screening shouldn't be done, but the motions are just that; no one <i>truly</i> gives a shit. Next time you go through the airport, look at the people you're forced to interact with. How much attention do they really give you? That is until you ruffle their feathers; I'll get to that one.<br />If you're not checking a bag, no one sees you at the front counter. Oh they <i>see</i> you, but that's it. And even checking a bag, they look at the boarding pass, your ID, <i>maybe</i> your face quickly, then "Be on with you."<br />Second line: You and the rest of the cattle line up to have your branding checked. Again, they'll look at your ID, wave a light over it to see the watermark, mark you boarding pass, then again, <i>maybe</i> they'll look at your face against the ID, but usually not. "Be gone, peon, I approve you."<br />To the thyroid killer. You pile your crap on the disgusting trays and into the x-ray and the person watching the screen... some look intently, but they're focusing on specific shapes and objects, not seeing the forest for the trees, if you will, and that's through. <br />Into the machine of long slow death, taking the "I surrender" pose, they barely look at you. Sure, they tell you to have everything out of your pockets, but they never check unless they see something obvious. Some drone in a remote room tells them you're okay and again, "Leave us, mere mortal, we are busy."<br />Gate agent: Most don't even look at you unless your pass is rejected by the barcode scanner. Some do and smile and such, but I'd say at least half could care less. "Just get on the plane, sloth, get away from me."<br />The only people who actually start to pay attention to you are the stewards/stewardess', mainly because they have no choice.<br /><br /><br />With this, does it really matter anyways? Hell no. If someone means to either transport drugs, harmful items, or hijack/blow up a plane, they're going to do it. Like gun laws, it does nothing but keep the honest people honest.<br />"So you're saying there should be nothing?!"<br />No, but let's be honest: Exclude x-rays for baggage and metal detectors - does any of the other shit make a damn bit of difference? They're run test after test and people with "bombs" and weapons still get through at about the same rate as before. Fuck, people get ON THE PLANE ITSELF with fake boarding passes.<br />Now, if the issues of security were relegated to the airport OR the airlines themselves, you'd have a much different approach. Why? Because while they're concerned with safety of ALL their passengers, they need to balance that with customer satisfaction. AND, they need to make sure their employees are happy with their jobs. So, well paid &amp; trained screeners, security plans that have the safety and the satisfaction of the customers in mind, and... yeah, it still doesn't matter. If someone wants to blow up that plane, they're doing it. BUT, it makes the entire process a lot easier and screens out the jackholes who are just looking to cause problems, not serious in their approach. All this without grandma getting molested, without little kids getting groped, and maybe, just maybe, you can pass through an airport with some level of dignity.<br /><br />Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06952019992793874926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372122494404241074.post-23309557927396401392013-03-06T12:46:00.001-08:002013-03-07T16:41:46.343-08:00I sue you, you sue me......We're litigious as can be<br />With my lawyer here<br />And a suit from me to you<br />Consider this<br />A big fuck you.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ASrH58mmG1c/UTefaXwvdmI/AAAAAAAAAhU/UQEAufnw9qY/s1600/shark_lawyer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="85" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ASrH58mmG1c/UTefaXwvdmI/AAAAAAAAAhU/UQEAufnw9qY/s320/shark_lawyer.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br />Part of the societal collapse that's occurring includes the fact that no one takes "Sorry" for an answer and everyone is out to screw everyone else. It's part of the <i><u><b>ME</b></u></i> culture that's solidifying. All actions revolve around The Self. If it doesn't benefit me, then fuck you all.<br />Now, even when we were a more honest, compassionate, and seemingly selfless people, everyone acts in their own interest. It's why we give to charity - <b>we</b> want to do something good for other people because it makes <b>us</b> feel better. That's not a bad thing. But it's gone from "making me feel good" to "how does it benefit me". It seems like semantics, but there's a definitive difference between those two.<br />And The System has perpetuated the ability for us to be suing the crap out of each other. While I like the fact that we're (well, we were) different than other countries, but we're the only country where whomever we sue has to pay court costs, even if they're right. Because of this, people can bring a suit against someone, usually a company, and that company now has to mobilize their legal team to defend themselves. Even if they were in the right, they still have to pay for the court costs. This is complete bullshit. If you're found liable, then fine, costs could and should be levied. But if you're found to be cleared, then the person bringing the suit should pay out the ass.<br />And before someone gets their panties in a twist: Yes, large corporations have stockpiles of cash where they could, in essence, drag a court case out for months, if not years. But that becomes the responsibility of the court to see that this is happening and put a stop to it. Our system of laws shouldn't be allowed to benefit any one person or entity. That is where all entities should be equal. And I'm sure that's why the "winner still pays up the fuckhole" rule was in place; to prevent someone from dragging out a lawsuit because they have the money to.<br /><br />Government tends to be the single point of failure in how people interact with people, with businesses, businesses with other businesses and so on. Once a law is put in place, like the ADA, it opens up individuals and businesses for lawsuits because they didn't comply with the rules laid out. There's fucktards across the country who see it as their sole mission in life to harass and extort (make no mistake about it, that's what it is) businesses who sinks are 36 inches off the ground, not 36.252897495727 inches. They file a suit, then tell the business owner, who is usually a small business, that if they pay this person $10,000 and fix the problem, they'll drop the suit, which if it went through the whole court process, could cost the owner thousands more in fees and fines. What the fuck?!?!<br /><br />And on TV every night, you see dozens of adds for sheisters who will take a drug company to court if you took some drug and it fucked you up. Guess what, kids? Pharmaceuticals mess with your body. They screw with the chemical make up of your biology in order to produce a different outcome than what you're seeing right now. No two people have the same chemical make up so a drug that makes me feel great could cause your penis to fall of. Which sucks even more if you didn't have one before, the drug causes you to grow one, and then it falls off. If you don't understand that this is how drugs work, then you're a fucking 'tard.<br />So, because we're a society of moochers and want what other people have (I.E., we're greedy motherfuckers), if that new skin cream gives me a rash, LAWSUITLAWSUITLAWSUIT!!!!!<br />The liability insurance these drug makers have to carry is enormous. This is why it takes forever for a new drug to come to market and why they charge so much for it. The R&amp;D alone, to protect themselves from every possible douchenozzle who could sue them, takes up millions. Then the FDA testing. Then the money to cover the insurance. Fuck...<br />AND, here's one for you. There is a decreasing supply of prescription painkillers. This isn't only attributed to the DEA arresting any doctor who gives you 2 pills too many. This is because it's no longer profitable for the pharma to make that drug. The liability they have to hold on that drug line is too great. So they stop making them. Think this will get any better?<br /><br />And the fucking disclaimers and warnings. Oh my holy fuck this is out of control.&nbsp; EVERY T.V. ad has a disclaimer. I stop the DVR and read each of these because they've become so annoyingly stupid. The "Professional driver. Closed course." ones on car ads are the worst. They ACTUALLY had one on that car ad where it showed astronauts driving some car on the moon. Along with "Do not try this". What?!?!<br />Warning labels and instructions on things like boxes of toothpicks are absurd. A warning label on a hammer. <i><u><b>A fucking hammer!?!?!</b></u></i> FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xPYqAHRdONg/UTegfIH-J4I/AAAAAAAAAhc/3hYZxM6giAg/s1600/head-exploding.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xPYqAHRdONg/UTegfIH-J4I/AAAAAAAAAhc/3hYZxM6giAg/s320/head-exploding.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>And this is <i><u><b>ALL</b></u></i> because someone sued. It has nothing to do with being <i>safe</i>, it has to do with covering your ass.<br /><br />Hospitals... oh dear. We are losing obstetricians annually because new doctors refuse to go into the specialty. and existing ones are quitting the field. Why? The liability and malpractice insurance they have to carry is too oppressive. The risks involved in child birth are real. Babies die regularly. It's sad, it's tragic, but 99 times out of 100, it's no ones fault. But people feel slighted, so they have to sue. This obviously isn't restricted to OB's, as all nurses and doctors <i>need</i> to carry this or they could lose their homes and more, but for OB's, it's become too much to deal with and they're saying "Fuck it, I'm done." Think this won't hurt in the future? Think it's not hurting now?<br /><br />All this came to mind in hearing that Colorado has a bill in their legislature that could hold gun dealers and manufacturers liable in the event the gun is used to harm someone (which is what they're supposed to do, but you get the point). Now, let me say that for a dealer, if they sell a gun <u><b><i>to a known criminal</i></b></u> (it's important to say that) then they should be able to be held criminally liable. <i>Criminally</i>, not civilly. But these laws are to allow families to sue in case some asshole shoots someone. FUCK YOU!!! This is why the civilian air industry is decimated. There used to be plenty of producers of civilian aircraft like Cessna and Piper. But too many accidents happened because the pilots were fucking assholes, families sued, and viola, the manufacturer goes out of business. I read of an incident where a guy crashed the plane, killing himself. When they found the plane, there were booze in the plane. They tested his blood and he was so fucking drunk it was surprising how he got the plane off the ground. <i>His family sued the manufacturer and they fucking won!!!! </i>If this goes through across the country, expect lawsuits to be filed against companies with big time cash reserves like Sterm Ruger or Smith &amp; Wesson and that will be the beginning of the end of the civilian firearms market because THAT will crush the industry.<br /><br />In "The Running Man", a lawyer is basically reading a contract to a condemned man, whose execution is going to be televised. Let's get to the meat of that, shall we? <i>This is what we have right now!</i> We're making disclaimers for cars, drinks, food, cell phones, toys, BAGS OF FUCKING NUTS!!! I shit you not! Next time you're on a plane, if they by chance have peanuts, read the bag. <i><u><b>It will say "This product contains nuts"</b></u></i> <br />DO NOT MISUNDERSTAND ME. There are plenty of times where companies or people are wantonly negligent and don't give a shit, resulting in someone getting injured or killed because they just didn't give a shit. Fuck them. Fuck them in the ass with a big rubber dick. BUT... I would fathom a guess that this is only the case about 10% of the time.<br /><br />When America finally collapses, which it will soon enough, this will all turn real fuckin' ugly. I'll let your imagination run with that. Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06952019992793874926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372122494404241074.post-22339231265575989272013-03-03T09:25:00.000-08:002013-03-06T12:47:12.901-08:00If your politicians suck, look in the mirror<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://1.gvt0.com/vi/07w9K2XR3f0/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/07w9K2XR3f0&fs=1&source=uds" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/07w9K2XR3f0&fs=1&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></div><br />Carlin had moments when he was just a miserable prick, but a fair amount of the time, he was right on. For the first half of this rant, he was. I'll address the second half in my second half.<br /><br />I am amazed more and more about the idiocy of those in political office. With every story I read, I'm facepalming so much there's an indent on my forehead and where my fingers fall on the sides. What fascinates me is that this person was elected to office by people who liked them. Well... maybe not necessarily liked, but "Anybody but a Democrat/Republican/Old White Guy/Black Guy/Woman/Mexican/Asian/That Guy". Those people make me giggle like a school girl. And if you've never seen a fat guy with a beard giggle like a school girl, good for you.<br />You are presented with two bowls of shit to eat. One is liquid, one is solid. The "Anybody but..." Syndrome says "I have to chose between these two, I'll chose this one". So you don't want the liquid shit, you'll take the solid one. A removed observer would say "Are you fucking high?" because the right answer to the dilemma is neither.<br />Andrew Wilkow, on his radio show, has addressed this in regards to dealing with Progressives. In short, their answer to you when you say you're for smaller government or you want to cut spending or whatever is "So you want people to die/be stupid/go hungry/etc..."; their choices being Statism or Nihilism. If you can think logically, as in the two bowls of shit scenario I laid out for you, you'll know that the <i>true</i> answer is found elsewhere. To me, this was what the 2012 Presidential Election was all about.<br />My preferences from the start were Cain, Johnson, Paul, Bachmann. I wasn't going to vote for anyone else. And Bachmann was going to be a stretch vote for me, as she's a little not right in the head, but she's at least not full retard like the rest of the pack was. But with those candidates, I at least felt some level of trust and could agree with most of what they stood for. So on the final ticket, it was King Barry I (I'd rather live through a century of Wile E. Coyote prat falls than vote for him), Mittens (same scenario, but as Daffy Duck) or Gary Johnson. I voted for Johnson. Now, the rank and file were quick to scream "A vote for Johnson was a vote for Obama!". No, a vote for Johnson was a vote for Johnson. If Willard wanted my vote, he needed to earn it. Just by being "The Other Guy" doesn't earn my vote. <b>And this is the problem with politicians now.</b><br />The overwhelming majority of these fucktards are, as Carlin said, a representation of the general public. I don't care what party they're affiliated with, stop and look at those who are most in the spotlight and you'll see the average schmoe in all of them. They live their lives on the backs of others; getting away with doing the least amount of work possible, while still holding up the facade that they're doing something. They pay lip service to helping others, but if it doesn't benefit them in the short AND long run, they won't touch it. They are quick to tell others how to live their lives...<br /><div style="text-align: center;">Don't do drugs</div><div style="text-align: center;">Guns are bad</div><div style="text-align: center;">Marriage is sacred</div><div style="text-align: center;">Save the environment</div><div style="text-align: center;">Money is evil</div><div style="text-align: center;">Help small businesses</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">...but if it affects them, fuck you, they'll do what they like because they're "smarter than other people". They will rack up debt on top of debt on top of debt, but when the bill comes do, they're suddenly surprised and demand help paying it. Please, tell me this isn't a cross-section of the average person in this country.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><b><i><u>THIS IS OUR PROBLEM!<u><i></i></u></u></i></b><br /><br />The people voting for the politicians are what needs to change and this should scare the ever loving shit out of you. Why? There's over 500 politicians in Washington. A pittance in comparison to the population of the US. You can change the ideas of these people or just get them out of the way. That's simple. Over 220 million people <b>CAN</b> vote in the US. Now obviously, the variety of their political and social views mean there's no single consensus of ideas, but that's where it starts to get real fucking frightening.<br />130 million people voted in the Presidential election in 2012. 10 million less than in 2008. So roughly half of the population didn't vote in that election. In the "off years" (every other year - elections are held annually, if not more often), it's usually pathetically less.<br /><i><u>Statistically speaking</u> </i>and it's important to say it that way because we <i>are</i> dealing with real numbers, but if you were talking statistics, the election was a 50/50 split. Reagan had a mandate. Obama - barely won. So 1/4 of the eligible voting public voted for Obama, 1/4 voted for Romney. So if 3/5 of the people WHO didn't vote last year actually made a choice for someone else, we'd have someone else as president. <i>This</i> is why the line "A third party can't win" is complete horseshit. They <b>could</b> win, but only if people got off their fucking asses.<br />That's what's scary about it all - The majority of people in this country don't care. They tend to call themselves "moderates" and when someone is either too left or too right for them, they cry "Why doesn't anybody compromise?!?!" and they don't find another candidate to vote for, they just don't vote. A moderate is someone who doesn't want to live with the consequences of making a decision by themselves. This is why they're "middle of the road".<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br />Pot's okay, but all other drugs should be illegal</div><div style="text-align: center;">No one says you need to drive a Yugo, but let's be reasonable</div><div style="text-align: center;">The government shouldn't tell people what to eat, but some people are just too fat and we need to help them</div><div style="text-align: center;">I'm all for free speech, but hate speech shouldn't be allowed</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Now, I'm sure some bright soul is saying "Wait a minute. A lot of those people who didn't vote for Mittens of King Barry I believe in freedom and liberty! They just didn't like the choices and didn't vote." You had a third choice on the national ballot: Gary Johnson. And let me be clear here, this isn't a plug for Gary Johnson. He had his flaws, but his entire platform was the free people ought to be allowed to make their own choices, as long as those choices didn't directly take away the rights of others. What's not to like about that?&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: left;">And there's another voice out there falling back to the "Anybody but that guy" argument: "King Barry I was so bad that we had to get him out of there and that meant I <i><b>had</b></i> to vote for Mittens!" So you were willing to trade one statist for another? Make no mistake, Romney was a statist. He just wanted to "manage" it better. Was he as bad Gingrich? No, but that's like saying "Was Mussolini as bad as Hitler?" Again, back to my two bowls of shit analogy.<br /><br />Reps who call themselves bi-partisan. Calls for compromise. People who say "everyone can give a little in this debate, right?". All of these people are fuckers. Now some would say I'm giving the same "It's either A or B" options. And at some level, you're right. But my choices are freedom, with all the pleasure and pain that comes with it, or some level of government control, with it's sliding scale from creepy intrusion to tyranny and despotism. You can have a free society with government; we did for a long time in this country. But that means not putting up with the 500 elitists in D.C. who believe they know better than you. It means having the balls to vote OUT someone who's acting like a nanny, even when they're in "your party", and voting IN someone who is willing to fight for your right to be left alone.<br /><br />If you continue to vote for "the lesser of two evils" you're still voting for evil and when government continues to stay shitty, pick up your chosen bowl, grab your spoon, and start investing in Callard &amp; Bowser-Suchard, the company who makes Altoids (owned by Wrigley), because your breath is going to stink. </div></div>Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06952019992793874926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372122494404241074.post-45565275713948384172013-02-19T08:44:00.001-08:002013-03-06T12:47:22.824-08:00Progressives: Your safety is their... fifth concernDuring my morning browsing of news and information sites, I came across this article on The Blaze:<br /><b><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/18/colorado-dem-on-why-women-dont-need-guns-on-campus-you-might-feel-like-youre-gonna-be-raped-but-you-may-actually-not-be/" target="_blank">This Colorado Democrat Thinks Women Shouldn’t Have Guns on College Campuses — The Reason Why Is Causing a Stir</a></b><br />The list I refer to is further down the page where the University of Colorado - Colorado Springs put forth a list on what to do if you're attacked. Oh it's rich...<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>1.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Be realistic about your ability to protect yourself.<br />2.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Your instinct may be to scream, go ahead!&nbsp; It may startle your attacker and give you an opportunity to run away.<br />3.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Kick off your shoes if you have time and can’t run in them.<br />4.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Don’t take time to look back; just get away.<br />5.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;If your life is in danger, passive resistance may be your best defense.<br />6.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Tell your attacker that you have a disease or are menstruating.<br />7.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Vomiting or urinating may also convince the attacker to leave you alone.<br />8.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Yelling, hitting or biting may give you a chance to escape, do it!<br />9.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Understand that some actions on your part might lead to more harm.<br />10.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Remember, every emergency situation is different.&nbsp; Only you can decide which action is most appropriate.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">&nbsp;I think 1 and 10 are pretty good. Everything else is laughable, if it weren't that these people are weapons grade stupid.&nbsp; Obviously, these are directed at women on a college campus and being that colleges demand that you be a defenseless sheep, these are painfully the only things you <i>can </i>do. If someone means to do you harm, they're going to do it unless you can physically stop them; either through action or intimidation.<br />What I found funny was watching a video on YouTube pro concealed carry, someone commented that "I'm 6 foot 2, 250 pounds. A loud yell and a menacing look is all I need." By which the 5 foot, 120 pound 14 year old gang banger with an illegal 1911 pops him in the head and steals his wallet. Or the 6 foot 3 inch, 300 pound thief hits him in the head with a brick, steals his wallet, watch, and rings, and shoves a pipe up his ass just for the fun of it. OR... what about does the 5 foot 10, 170 pound 70 year old do when they're being harassed, threatened, or intimidated? "I'm gonna call the cops on you!" he/she shouts before they're assaulted by the thugs. Or what does my 5 foot 9, 140 pound daughter (she's older) do? Some people are as dumb as a bowl of wet mice. <br />"<b>I'm a man! I don't need a gun!"</b> You're an asshole and a 9 year old with a .22 will make you cry like a baby with diaper rash. Or the 'wimp' you step up to with your "menacing" look may be carrying a knife or pepperspray and when you yell at him, he's gonna fuck you up.<br /><br />Obviously, people deserve to walk the streets without being harassed or harmed. But we live in a violent world. The human animal is a pretty shitty creature when left without a conscience or care about anyone but Itself. <b>We</b> (the greater) need to accept that fact that some people are scum and we need to protect ourselves from them. The young girl&nbsp; who follows all the steps laid out above could still find herself raped, beaten, and possibly even dead, because she believed in The System and the defensive powers of The State. And the young girl who brings a firearm into the situation, with the training behind it? She too could still wind up raped, beaten, or dead, but she at least leveled the odds and said, "I will not comply."<br /><br /></div>Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06952019992793874926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372122494404241074.post-42358502829624546962013-02-15T08:22:00.000-08:002013-02-15T08:22:06.118-08:00It's not the video, it's the lyrics<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object width="320" height="266" class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://1.gvt0.com/vi/hMKx3iTqTbk/0.jpg"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hMKx3iTqTbk&fs=1&source=uds" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hMKx3iTqTbk&fs=1&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></div>A song from my youth.<br />A band from New York called S.F.A. They were part of the hardcore punk movement called "hatecore". This wasn't some white power thing at the start; it was in response to the unity movement that had been underway in the hardcore scene. Bands like S.F.A and Sheer Terror were basically just pissed off regular guys who wanted to sing about the shitty side of life, voice their opinions about societal and political bullshit without being "We should come together and love one another and sing and dance and..." They were saying "This shit is fucked up! You all suck! Eat a dick!" As a lyric from Sheer Terror's song "Just Can't Hate Enough" says:<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i>I'm just a workin' class slob who's tired</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Of getting the short end of the stick</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>It ain't my problem if I'm not like you</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>And I'm not suckin' Uncle Sam's dick</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>You call that negative</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>You think I'm out of touch</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>I can't stand living</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>I can't stand you</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>And I just can't hate enough.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Now like many popular movements, someone comes along and distorts the original message and the white power movement took over the term "hatecore". Typical of the seek-help crowd.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Anyways...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">This song came up in a random music shuffle recently and I thought it's a powerful one. Won't say I condone it, but I understand. :-)</div><div style="text-align: left;">Lyrics below, as they can be a little tough to make out for some folks.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>You don't have to look far to see filth and grime<br />Our daily lives are filled with perversion and crime<br />A dealer on the corner, some whores down the block<br />It's an everyday sight, it comes as no shock<br />No arrests are made, the politicians are corrupted<br />This is the world they made, it's time we disrupt it<br />Justice can't be brought through legal demands<br />The only way to do it is with the law in our hands<br />Purge! Bring down the state<br />You rally and protest, your voices go unheard<br />You've got to change tactics<br />Actions speak louder than words<br />Democracy is a sham, it's all been prearranged<br />Bombs, not ballots, is the only way to bring a change<br />World history is approaching it's darkest hour<br />We can turn back the clock, we've got the power<br />We are the new morality, the power is in our hands<br />We can sweep across the nation and purge the land<br />Politicians and evangelists all spread the lie<br />For their injustice to humanity, they'll have to die<br />Today's robber barons must be assassinated<br />Drug dens and porno houses must be incinerated<br />We're the new morality, our numbers are vast<br />We can build a new future as we burn down the past<br />We'll show no mercy, no hesitation<br />Might makes right, we're gonna purge the nation<br />Purge! Bring down the state</i></div>Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06952019992793874926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372122494404241074.post-81987723138302997742013-02-14T10:37:00.002-08:002013-03-06T12:47:32.400-08:00More basics of economics - The Minimum Wage<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-adnhY5uNItQ/UR0hA5ch40I/AAAAAAAAAhE/a9_RM2VD1qs/s1600/dollar-sign1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-adnhY5uNItQ/UR0hA5ch40I/AAAAAAAAAhE/a9_RM2VD1qs/s200/dollar-sign1.jpg" width="120" /></a></div>I didn't watch the State Of The Union. Every time I see or hear King Barry I, I get an animalistic urge to throw poo at the electronic device spewing his voice. That aside, I heard clips and the one that made me yell "FUCK YOU!!!" to the screen was the typical Progressive line that people can't live off the minimum wage and we can't have that so we need to raise he minimum wage.<br /><br />My pretty much exact phrase that night was "Fuck you, you fucking dumbass retard! You have NO CLUE how business works!"<br /><br />Why does the minimum wage suck and why it does nothing positive for "the poor" and only hurts?<br /><br />Pretty much all companies have jobs that need to be done that are menial, ultra-low skilled, and 'entry-level'. As a business is small, these jobs are done by the owner (as they're the only employee at the start), but then it can become a team effort: Everyone refills the coffee pot. While she's handling all the accounting tasks, Pam also orders the office supplies. Karen, who's the senior sales person (because she's the only one), sweeps the floors before heading home. Dave, who's the software programer, buys and restocks the coffee supplies weekly. You get the idea. Now, as the business expands and these people work more and more, these jobs STILL need to be done. You, as the owner, decide that you need to hire someone. So, you need someone to sweep floors, clean the toilet, order supplies, restock the coffee, and maybe even answer phones.<br />Question: How many people walking the Earth can do that job? Excluding young children, language barred, the retarded, infirmed, and those just physically incapable of doing it, about 95% of the people out there can do this job. Efficiencies aside, I could hire a teenage kid, still in high school to do this job.<br />Second question: How valuable is that work when I can hire just about anyone to do it? Shoe-level low. So why should I pay any one with ZERO experience, ZERO work history, and ZERO background on how well they work, anything more than a couple dollars an hour?<br />"<i>You can't live off that!"</i> Cries the Progressive.<br /><b>You're not supposed to!</b> These jobs that are as simple as shitting are of such low value is that I probably <i>could </i>hire a retard and they'd perform most of the tasks just fine.<br /><i>"So why should these people take these jobs?"</i><br />To get work history. To be able to show another employer, for a higher skilled job, that you're dependable, that you've worked 40 hour weeks, showed up on time, made your employer happy, etc... The $5.00/hour&nbsp;<i> </i>ain't pretty, but it's something. It's $200 a week you didn't have before. Want more, learn a skill and find a better job.<br /><br />Now, let's add in "The Minimum Wage". Right now, it's about $7.25. I have two people coming at me for this shit job. If I <u><i><b>have</b></i></u> to pay them $7.25 an hour, who will I hire - Joe, who's 15, never had a job in his life beyond mowing lawns, he's still in school, he's an average student. Or Jane, who's 32 with a child at home, who worked 3 jobs successfully, growing into new positions, and only left the job market because she had a baby, and she's a college graduate. Ding, ding, ding, Jane, you have a job. Why? Even without asking anything, if Jane says she's a mom, I can generally assume she's responsible (I know, that's definitely not a guarantee, but...) because she has to care for a child. I can make an assumption that she is looking for extra money for something; why come back to work if she didn't have to? She has a history of work, so I could ask for a reference and would maybe find she's been reliable. Joe has no benefits to me, Joe gets no job. <b>BUT...</b> what if Joe was willing to take $6.00 an hour and Jane wasn't? Now Joe is a benefit to me. I can get the same work done for less money. I give Joe a chance. Maybe Joe thanks me by staying loyal to me and as his skill increase, maybe Joe stays with my company and grows into new jobs for me. <br />How many kids are working at jobs that were open to teenagers before. My first jobs were shoveling ice cream, then stocking shelves, stocking produce, cleaning a charter boat. These jobs suck. But I earned money, I got work experience, I showed my value. Look around now and who's doing these jobs? Adults!<br /><i>"They deserve a fair wage!"</i> Cries the Progressive.<br />That is fair. Why? Because if I can't pay the wages these people want, I just don't hire them. I still have the rest of my staff performing the jobs because <b>they still need to be done!</b><br /><i>"You're a greedy business owner who is keeping all the profit!"</i><br />To be considered a successful business, you have to be maintaining an 8% net profit margin. This allows you to grow in the following year(s), re-invest in the company, maybe buy a new company etc...&nbsp;<i> </i>About 4% is considered being stagnant. Anything less, but over 0, is struggling to survive. So if I take anything out of those profits to increase the pay of my employees and don't receive any additional benefit from it or increase my revenue, I'm losing money. The business <b><i>will</i> </b>collapse. Or...<br />To increase the money I'm paying my employees, I increase my prices. If I'm one business doing this, not a big deal, people can chose to do business with me or not. Maybe my products are worth the additional prices I'm charging. Maybe not. If I don't get the increased revenue, I can't afford to pay my people, people get pay cuts, get laid off, etc... Now, what if <i><u><b>ALL</b></u></i> businesses do this? The prices for EVERYTHING go up. The additional money that person making minimum wage got by the government mandated increase, now becomes absolutely worthless because the price of everything increased by the same percentage their wage increased. If you don't think this is happening, you've got shit between your ears because it DOES happen. <b>Every single time the minimum wage is increased, the prices increase.</b><br /><br />The only way a person making a shit wage can increase their pay is to increase their skills, increase their worth to the person/people who have or are willing to hire them . If you're making $8.00/hr at Walmart, then A) Find a better job than stocking shelves at Walmart or B) Show you're more valuable to Walmart so they can put you into a job that is commiserate with your work.Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06952019992793874926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372122494404241074.post-52651411609444398172013-02-06T14:13:00.001-08:002013-03-29T09:09:36.953-07:00I support the Second Amendment, but...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iaI9XUrYiI8/URLJuASlcRI/AAAAAAAAAg0/DbpthXKDkao/s1600/Gunfade.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iaI9XUrYiI8/URLJuASlcRI/AAAAAAAAAg0/DbpthXKDkao/s200/Gunfade.gif" width="136" /></a></div>How many times have you heard that one? Especially as of late. Or "I'm all for freedom of speech, but..." That one's surprisingly popular as well.<br />If you say you're for freedom and then add "...but,..." then you're not. In truth, when you make a statement and through in a "But" in the middle, whatever you said before the 'but' is bullshit.<br />"I think you're a great guy, Tom, but I've heard you can be a cunt sometimes." = "Tom, you're a cunt."<br />"I don't have a problem with black people, but they do cause the majority of crimes." = "Black people cause the majority of crimes and I don't like them."<br />"I believe in the Second Amendment, but we should ban assault rifles." = "I believe we should ban guns."<br />"I'm all for freedom of speech, but we shouldn't allow hate speech." = "I want to restrict speech."<br /><br />Freedom is painful. The movie is mainly filled with Progressive tripe, but Michael Douglas' soliloquy at the end of "American President" has some truth to it.<br /><span style="color: lime;"><i>"America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You gotta want it bad, 'cause it's gonna put up a fight. It's gonna say "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country can't just be a flag; the symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then, you can stand up and sing about the "land of the free"."</i></span><br />What freedom means is suffering the consequences of your failures. If you want to be free to ride your motorcycle without a helmet, then when you wreck and crack your skull, the bills are on you. Your family can't sue the motorcycle company or the city or the state. <b>You're the one responsible for it.</b><br />The same for businesses. Right now, we're living through the results of "shared liability, private profits." GM, Citibank, Bank Of America, Solyndra, and probably thousands of others who, thanks to politicians, hoist their failures upon the American taxpayer, but when they make a profit, that's all for them, their unions, etc... <i><u><b>FUCK YOU!!!</b></u></i> If you want to be free from government regulations (Trust me, these large government connected companies LOVE regulations. They help write them to keep away the competition) then you are solely responsible for the actions of your business.<br />As a gun owner, <i>you</i> are responsible for the control of that weapon. If someone gets killed because of a 'misfire', "I thought it was unloaded", "It was an accident", it gets stolen, then it's on you. Yes, you can do your best to secure it and these things can happen, but YOU are responsible for it. <i>If</i> it's stolen, then report it as such. Welcome to reality.<br />But the same goes for the people around us.<br />If you've agreed to the terms of a drivers license, then you've agreed to be responsible for the rolling mass of death thundering down the road, with you behind the wheel. If you crash into a motorcyclist while texting, you're the asshole and no amount of helmet laws will have cured your stupidity.<br />If you're continuing to buy the products produced by a company who you feel has shitty business practices (Apple, Bank Of America, Levi Strauss, etc...) then guess who's responsible for that company staying in business? Yup, you guessed it, you're the cocksucker. How's it taste?<br />I could go on, but hopefully, you get the point.<br /><br />We (The Collective) have all but agreed that We can't deal with freedom. Sure, there's some of us who understand that our actions have reprecussions and we're ready to deal with that, but the greater populace of the US has determined that it just can't handle their own lives and has turned to The State for care and feeding. It shouldn't come as a surprise as this is the way most of the world has gone and, being an open immigration country (unlike the rest of the world), we get these ideas imported and they begin to fester. It's like my current state, North Carolina. Entry way to The South. However, there's been such an influx of "Northerners" here, fleeing their high-tax, high-regulation states, that the politics are beginning o reflect that. Hell, there's a town down here called "Cary", which the locals refer to as<b> </b>Containment Area for Relocated Yankees. It has higher property taxes than the surrounding communities. There's tons of ordinances restricting business facades, what signs you can have in your yards, etc... Progressives are like cancer, aren't they? They pick a place, attack it, ruin it, move on, do it all over again.<br /><br />There is a sliver of hope that people are beginning to realize that the chains of The State are heavy and are trying to shrug them off. But if the "Freedom Movement" has any chance of growing, people need to be ready to accept some pain; mainly mental, but there could be some physical hardship. But it's the only way it can happen. If We keep trying to deaden the pain, we'll continue to be asleep and be subservient to The State.Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06952019992793874926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372122494404241074.post-36895158129381088102013-01-31T12:44:00.000-08:002013-01-31T12:51:01.577-08:00Say what you mean<br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/UO-qjKEcLZg" width="420"></iframe><br />Something a little lighter for today.<br /><br />We have become such a "Gotcha!" culture that every word you say is scrutinized. In truth, this isn't a new phenomenon.&nbsp; Back in the 70's Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder made a <a href="http://youtu.be/xKtIqXMpHcY" target="_blank">comment </a>that blacks are better athletes because in slave times, they were bred to be bigger and stronger, which is 100% verifiable true, and he got fired because of it.<br />Now though, this sociopolitical sensitivity has produced the professional apology. And it's truly reached the point of insanity. If your comment offends <b>ANYONE</b>, you are immediately to come out with an apology, detailing how insensitive it was, or how you didn't think about what you were saying, or how, as King Barry I does constantly, explain how your comments were taken out of context.<br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opie_and_Anthony" target="_blank">Opie &amp; Anthony,</a> 2 radio DJ's who've probably gotten fired or suspended more times than anyone else on the radio medium today, have explained on their show numerous times how the 'apology' is always, 100% pure bullshit. They've done it themselves, having replayed their apologies on air, and explained exactly where in the 'apology' they're lying through their teeth. And then they've played other professional apologies and when you stop, listen, replay, listen, replay, you start to see where the person is just trying to cover their ass.<br />CYA is the name of the game and at some level, I get it. And I also understand the company these people are working for, getting ansy when one of their 'talent' says something "offensive". They're trying to portray their product in a certain light and they don't want anyone fucking that up. When someone does, they often want to put distance between themselves and that person, so to try and avoid that distance, the person who couldn't keep their mouth shut (or clothes on or liquor in check, etc...) tries to, in truth, play off what&nbsp; they said or did, giving the business an out to say "See, they're sorry for what they did."<br />But We need to stop playing this game and realize that some people say dumb shit. For some, it really <i>is</i> a mistake or in no way meant to offend. Don Imus comes to mind. Yes, for some people, it's <i>really</i> what they mean. This overly-sensitive culture is just fucking ridiculous.<br />It's one of the reasons I don't mind Ann Coulter. On some things, she can be as annoying as Jehovah's Witness's, but the one thing you have to truly love about Ann is she will say what she means and does not give one fuck as to what you think about it. The media blow up of her calling John Edwards a faggot was hysterical to watch because you could see in her eyes that she didn't care what they said. I know why, but the fact that she's not held in high regard by the "Womens Movement" for being a bold, charismatic, outspoken, and successful opinion writer is a crime. <br />I understand that this whole post can be seen as sort of hypocritical, as I'm doing my own form of CYA by not using my real name or face, yet I'm saying what I mean. The difference here is, if my information were to "come out", about who I was, I wouldn't pull the "Oh, what I really meant was..." or "I was being insensitive when I referred to Barrack Obama as King Barry I and I called him a cocksucking cuntwad. I didn't mean it the way it came out." Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06952019992793874926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372122494404241074.post-17568152921445754492013-01-30T14:08:00.000-08:002013-01-30T14:08:07.759-08:00The moneypit called The US MilitaryYup, going there...<br /><br />We were warned about standing armies. George Washington warned us about having them at our formation, which was why the idea of a militia was so prominent to men like him. Educated young people, formed in each community, taught in the ways of the military, ready to fight when called, but beyond that, going about their business... that was the 'militia'. Small 'units', decentralized, but all with the purpose of defending this country when needed. It's a defensive tool.<br />A navy is different in that a navy is, by its nature, global. All you need is to add water. The navy was there to <i>defend</i> out trade interests, wherever our merchants needed to be. Marines, attached directly to the Navy (Even today, the USMC is a branch of the Department Of The Navy), were to be used in the event that defense of assets had to go ashore. <br />Beyond the militia to guard our shores and a navy to guard our trade interests, that was how we were to operate, as a country. Some would argue we did a piss poor job of defense through these methods, looking at the War of 1812, but we're still here, aren't we. Not that bad.<br />Then, it began to turn.<br /><br />Sure, you could go right <i>after</i> the formation and look at things like the Whiskey Rebellion, but the government response to that was as it should (if you agree the federal government has the authority to quell rebellions) in that a militia army was raise, crisis dealt with, army desolved.<br /><br />As Our eyes got bigger, so did the reach of a military. Through expansion, a full time service became normal. Still minute by today's standards, but a standing army.<br />There were peaks and valley's of how large or small it was, but&nbsp; <i>in general</i>, the military was kept small and the expansion of US Imperialism was kept... in check. Then we're treated to WWII and it all falls to shit and the solidifying of a permanent military industry was locked in.<br /><br />There's been a plethora of information of how this happened, but my favorite author of this period, Garet Garrett, detailed it brilliantly in his essay "Rise Of Empire." This can be found in its full form in his book "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ex-America-Anniversary-Peoples-Pottage/dp/0870044427/" target="_blank">Ex-America</a>" or in a condensed PDF version provided by the Mises Institute called "<a href="http://mises.org/journals/lar/pdfs/2_1/2_1_7.pdf" target="_blank">American Empire</a>". Garrett references Congressional debates whereby Senetors and Representatives basically say "The Military knows how much equipment they need. We should just give it to them."<br />You have a child; Suzy. Suzy is a bit of a bratty little girl, but she's your princess. Suzy wants new toys. Suzy wants <b>lots</b> of new toys. Suzy wants lots of <b>expensive</b> new toys. Being that you're the parent, responsible for what Suzy does, do you just give in and give Suzy all the toys she wants?<br /><br />Eisenhower, in <a href="http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/dwightdeisenhowerfarewell.html" target="_blank">his farewell address,</a> warned about the military industrial complex. People often use this point he made while forgetting that he wasn't entirely talking about shutting down the standing armies, but of keeping it all in check. He was a career soldier; he didn't want to shut it down. But he knew it had to be kept in check or else it would grow out of control, which it has.<br /><br />I used to hear the term <i>military industrial complex</i> and get pissy. Mainly because those who were using it were hippies who believe in the "all you need is love" philosophy. Which sounds great, except people suck, no matter what you do and if you try the 'flowers in the barrels of the guns' thing with people who truly want to conquer you, you'll find that flower implanted in your skull, directly in front of the copper jacketed rifle round. War may never be <i>the</i> answer, but it is <i>an</i> answer. But my awakening took time and some of it was this belief in our military expansion. I liked the idea that we had bases around the world. "To protect us." That is until I started thinking critically and analyzed the question "How would you feel is say China had a base into the continental US? To protect their interests." Changes the angle of attack, doesn't it?<br /><br />Without request, we imposed our will around the world. <b>We</b> would protect "freedom" from the Communists. The US taxpayer, who were supposed to be the ones in charge of government, were <i>ordered</i> to fund the military 'aid' actions around the globe. What?? I didn't sign up for that? Where's that authority laid out?&nbsp; Oh, nowhere. Okay, just checking. <br />With all this, so rose the "Military Industrial Complex". Entire sectors of business whose purpose is to create new and innovative weapons and technology to drive our military action. If the entirety of the military budget was magically cut tomorrow, how many companies would go belly up? I honestly don't know, but I'd say about <span style="font-size: x-small;">1/4</span>-<span style="font-size: x-small;">1/3</span> of the "private" sector would collapse because of it. Raytheon used to be a leader in early consumer electronics (TV's, radios, Radar Ranges - aka, the first microwaves). Now; the entirety of their business is government. Milipore, MITRE, Lockheed, Northrup Gruman, etc, etc... Money taken from taxpayers by the threat of violence, given to these companies, to create tools used to expand and maintain Empire.<br /><i><b>I am not against using a 'military power' to maintain the defense of our country or to TRULY protect our business and trade interests internationally</b></i>. That's why we were supposed to have it. But it's gone so far beyond that it's not even fucking funny anymore. Why are we in Germany? England? Japan? Spain? And so on. This is ridiculous.<br /><br />People say that without funding these military innovations, we wouldn't have consumer innovations. Bull-fucking-shit. So the mind who thought of the <a href="http://www.gizmag.com/raytheon-significantly-progresses-exoskeleton-design/16479/" target="_blank">exo-skeleton </a>created by Raytheon wouldn't have changed around the function, turned the lifting capabilities inwards, and maybe develop a new way for paraplegics to become mobile again? When you change the focus of an idea, you change the outcome of that idea. You tote an AR-15 because you say it's to defend your home and family. The fuckwad in Newtown used one to massacre children. Different focus, different outcome.<br /><br />I have respect for many of the soldiers who chose to serve in the military. I refuse to say all because in all groups, some people are cock sucking jizzbags. But I would much rather see their talents and minds used <i>here</i>, advancing society, than being used as cannon fodder in some far off land, advancing an agenda of whomever has deemed themselves "In Charge". <br />"For a safe and secure society". Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06952019992793874926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372122494404241074.post-85765806500419257742013-01-30T12:51:00.002-08:002013-01-30T12:52:00.423-08:00Judge Napolitano In the 5 Minute Speech That Probably Got Him Fired<br />Thanks to <a href="http://ericpetersautos.com/2012/02/21/video-the-questions-they-wont-let-you-ask-judge-napolitano-in-the-5-minute-speech-that-got-him-fired/" target="_blank">Eric Peters</a> for finding my way to the original. The YouTube version was pulled.<br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.liveleak.com/ll_embed?f=545c8565c38e" width="640">Thanks</iframe>Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06952019992793874926noreply@blogger.com0